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lafco commission. i'm vice chair jackie field and joined by commissionerings preston and williams. clerk is stefani cabrera and like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting. do you have announce ams. >> yes, thank you. local agency formation commission allow in person attendance and public comment and providing remote access the commission recognizes public access is essential and will take public comment taken on each item on the agenda. for those on channel 26 or sfgov.org the public comment call in in is streaming across the screen it is 415-554-0001. nais 415-554-0001 >> enter access code: 2499 048

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thank you, vice chair fielder. >> thank you. i wanted give my colleagues a reminder to put your name in the chat if you would like to speak that is the official roster don't raise your hand when you request to speak. thank you >> can you call roll. >> vice chair will fielder. >> present. >>. member williams. >> present. >> member preston. >> present. thank you. you have a quorum. >> thank you. i like to make a motion to excuse chair connie chan from the meeting. commissioners can i have a second? >> second. >> madam clerk, call the role. >> thank you. member williams. >> present. >> aye. >> preston. >> aye. >> fielder.

>> aye. >> there are three aye's. >> thank you. >> madam clerk call item 2. >> 2 a resolution adopting findings to allow teleconference meetings under section 54953e. number who is wish to comment call 415-554-0001, access code: 2499 048 6443 ##. and press pound twice. if have you not done so press star 3. the system will prompt you raised your hand. wait until the system says you have been unmuted you and may begin your comments during public comment. >> before weef vote on this, can we open public comment? >> thank you. are there members of the public

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queue for those on hold, please continue to hold. >> there are zero callers on the line. >> thank you. public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? yo so moved. >> can i get a second? >> second. >> thank you. commissioners. and moved by commissioner preston and seconded by williams. call the roll. >> member williams. >> aye. >> member preston. >> aye. >> vice chair fielder. >> aye. >> there are 3 aye's. >> thank you madam clerk this is adopted. can you call item 4? >> item 4 is a hearing on safety over sight investor owned utilities and the golden state energy act senate bill 350. member who is wish to provide

public comment call 415-554-0001 then access code: 2499 048 6443 ## press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. i like to recognize that commissioner singh joined us. thank you commissioner singh and to introduce this hearing we'll hear from antonio diaz from the power coalition then california auditor and then mary turac from clean power. thank you for join happening us and you have 5 minutes to present.

>> good morning antonio diaz with people organizing to demand environmental and economic voice. we are part of the reclaim our power utility justice campaign. we have a slide deck? >> yes. i can share it now. one second. >> i will get started. thank you lafco commission members and lafco execute arive officer pollock for holding this hearing. the san francisco based environmental justice organization. has been active with reclaim our power utility justice campaign because we recognize the deadly failures and corporate malfeesance of pg and e and the need for accountability. most catastrophic impacts of pg

and e failures has been the destructive wild pyre this is causeded damage to land and property but deaths. pg and e killed over a handled people. and one the 2018 camp fire and the speaker says their negligence destroyed a communities paradise. >> pg and e failures cost all of us as customers. their so called public safety power shut off put vulnerable the elderly, disabled. the medically vulnerable at the highest risks. it is clear instead of invest nothing public safety the -- utility priorities are their investors. also rates have escalated

because of the corporate actors passed their billions of wild fair mittgation costs to the rate payors. members that latin x families in san francisco who have been affected by the covid-19 pandemic have been hard hit by the rising bills. all this while pg and e boss got a pay package of 20 million dollars in 2021. >> besides hurting our pocket book pg and e failures hurt our health. we remember the day in 2018 looking at the sky and thick smoke due to the fires caused by the corporations lack of taking care of equipment. and obviously that is huge public health impacts given amongst the most vulnerable given the air quality

occurrence. also all of you are familiar with the delays that we experienced in san francisco because of pg and e costly dragging of their feet on public projects from affordable housing, parks and other community space. this kinds of corporate behavior indicative of -- pg and e approach to servicing the region. >> basically what we are here to say is point out there is a huge lack of accountability. the state whether it is the office of energy infrastructure safety or the cpu c, they keep approving this investor utility mitigation plan and safety certificates. all this fires of destruction continue to happen. >> and therefore obviously we

need the governor to act. you will hear in the moment about the state auditor's report. from -- spring of the past year criticized the state's inability to address the failures we appreciate of san francisco leadership not only in pointing out pg and e's inadequacies and calling the corporation and the govern to task to bring about real change. we are here to ask lafco to ask the board of supervisors to act on the state auditor's recommendation and demand accountability from pg and e. of the >> thank you. >> thank you. antonio and the reclaim our power coalition. we will take questions after the following presentation. they work always, thank you for

your help and we are lucky to hear directly from the california state auditor. staff and the california state auditor's office. senior auditor and john klein to present on the audit of the safety and oversight safety oversight of investor owned utilities. thank you bothed for being here to present. keep your presentation to 10 admissibilities and commissioners will have questions at the end. >> over to you. >> good morning. i'm john klein i was project manager for the auditor report on electrical system safety. i'm joined by aaron fellner and we are here to describe the audit related to the california utility's commission. office of energy and safety and california sick investor on utilities. there are 3 main issues from that report we like to highlight

today. first the investor owned utilities have 40,000 miles of power lines in areas great threat for wild fires. the utilities use power shut off 67 times. from 2013 through 2021 asciiing millions of customers. the agency's process don't hold utilities sufficiently accountable. we like to encourage to you look at other findings in the report on the website. and graphic we created so you review whether there are bare, covered or under grounds distribution lines in your neighborhood. aaron was the lead on the project and describe details about the state of california's electrical grid. >> thanks, john. >> so i will describe the state of the electric at grid and the improvements that can be made to lower risk of wildfire and power shut offs. 75,000 miles of distribution

lines in the state are located in high fire threat areas. those are areas by cal fire and the cpu c to be extreme risk of wildfire and 50% of miles are bear power lines they are a concern they are less effective than other power lines preventing issues that cause sparks and half of fires reported the last 5 years caused by power lines coming in contact with vegetation. now there is a number of improvements they make to the grid to reduce the risk wildfire. first thanksgiving managed is under grounding. utilities estimate it cost 3 million dollars per mile. and installing covered power line system another managed that cost 700 thousand dollars per mile. utilities slow to make improvements. in 2020 they had 1500 miles of

power lines. they don't report where they conducted that work. we don't know if that was in the areas of highest fire risk. if it was this would institute 4% of bare line in thes high threat areas. because replacing power lines represents a huge cost. we focused to ensure they are targeting the high risk areas. and one way of identifying areas that need to be approved is look where utilities shut off power in the past. that really shows where the lines are on risk of wildfire. there was 67 power shut offs from 2013 to 21. deenergizing thouz know arounds of circuits. of the individuals lost power for upon 37 hours and april 270 circuits experienced 3 our more power shut off in thes same year. over 85 mores of the power shut off in high fire threat areas.

now our report did not recommend power shut offs as a tool we reported after 15 power shut offs and found in in 11 of the reports, they described wind damage and vegetation coming in contact with power lines could caused an ignition had the power not been shut off the damage illustrates hardning in the areas to prevents the need for power shut offs when weather conditions occur again. >> state law requires utilities to identify circuits during power shut offs and the measures utilities have taken or plan to take to reduce the need in the future. >> based on the impacts i described our report recommended the law change to require utilities to identify in the plan improve ams necessary to prevent power shut offs on deenergized lines. we recommend to prevent power

shut offs not just reduce the need. >> several reported than i anticipaterousing the number of power shut offs in the coming years. this decrease may be legalityed utilities adjusting settingos equipment rather than improvements to the power grid x. that brings us to utilities altering unplanned outages to reduce the likelihood that vegetation causing a fire in concern conditions and locations. utilities alter settings so the power is not turned on after a default this . is effective but has adverse impact on the communities inform 2021pg and e triggered 600 outages affecting sick00,000 people occurred with no notice and affected an average of 1 thousand customers

per outage for 17 hours in duration. and unlike planned shut offs customers receive no notice of the outages before their power is interrupted. although this may be an effective method but there is no requirement utilities identify the lines that are affected boy the unplanned outages or address how they will reduce the need going forward. that is why our report recommended the law change to include circuits as a result of power set being measures and that this would expand the scope of the law to include shut offs and equipment settings that trig are unplanned outages. now i will turn over to john to discuss the reports other findings and recommendations. jools we had a number of concerns with the oversight mechanisms that apply to investor owned utilities. concerns with cpu c audit

process. they conduct audits of equipment to ensure that the utility is complying with general orders and this should be an important part of cpu c's oversight. we found 3 problems with their use of the audits. first, cpu c does not audit all districts consistently it audited fewer than 70% of power line districts the last 5 years and secondly, did not audit several districts that contain elevated or extreme fire risks. notablely the last 5 years they did not audit the district where the camp and dixie fires start. they state use risk factors audits but could not provide evidence of how it prioritized the district its did review. third we found they don't penalize use when audits uncover violations. they have never issued a penalty as a result of an audit. indicates that it only issues

penalties through investigation process and significant issues when individuals were hurt or killed or buildings destroyed. alternate they have found same issues through audit its penalized utilities for after investigations penalties don'ts increase the compliance. however, if they are useful when a person or injured or dies or building burns down it is not clear why they are not useful when they find problems before the disaster occurs. we recommended the legislator require the cpu c to do 2 thing. first impelement a better audit plan and second, a schedule of penalties for violations identified through the audits and impose those penalties. we reviewed the energy safety office approval of mitigation plan and safety certifications. activities related utility wildfire mitigation transitioned from cpu c to office of energy

infrastructure safety in july of 2021. because the staff and responsibilities other same we refer to both activities conducted at cpu c and the new office as energy safety. one of the energy safety office responsibility is issuing safety certifications to utilities that dem strit they meet criteria required. having approved wildfire mitigation plan identifying activities utility under take to mitigate wildfire risks is a legal requirement. the law requires the utility impelementing the most recently approved mitigation plan. however, the impelementation of the plan is occurring at the same time the safety certification was injury issued and energy safety cannot assess whether the plan implemented before the safety certification. most critically the state ludoes

not include utility impelementation of a prior year's plan criteria for issuance of the certification. when the office issued the 2020 safety certification. it noted it had concerns about pg sxeshgs implementation of the prior plan. it issued the certification because they met the requirements. we woulded the law be changed to require the safety office conclude that the utility has implemented the prior mitigation plan before it issued a safety certification. >> the review of the 2020 certification issueed pg and e and others found weaknesses in process for issuing them. the energy safety office identified aspects of the 3 largest utilities mitigation plans missing or flued. it approved the plans anyway. the energy safety office issued

conditional approvals. is this is a sterile not defined in law. of all 3 utility plans. the director of energy safety stated they were required to submit remedial plans through ajs was not a condition of approval. the energy safety office advised the process for plans and now requires them to address issues before it approved the plans. if use of approvalless called in question the appropriateness of the plans and safety certifications for 2020. we are happy to answer questions i know it was a lot of material in a short period. let us know if you have questions. >> thank you. i really appreciate it and -- commissioners to put names in the chat if they have questions. i have a question. i hear that the buck stops at the state legislator that is

where a lot of this can change. requiring the cpu c to have higher standards for their audits and obviously robust audits. what has the response been? have you had conversations with the governor about this? >> so we made recommends to the state agencies office of energy and infrastructure and safety and the legislator. in some cases we made our recommendations to the legislator because the -- agency in question indicated they were imposed to making certain changes. we have not had conversations with the governoror. to the best my knowledge there has not been legislation introduced to date. >> this evening >> commissioner williams.

>> thank you so much for this presentation. i'm os litting with nausea and anger. talked about unknown 4% of the changed power lines and the upon 37 hours on average without power. the fires i met members in the community who -- the resilience and what they are up against is astonishing. i wonder are you planning any future at it? >> our work is assigned by joint audit committee. we do follow up on a recommendations so at 60 days and 6 months and a year we request the we made recommendations to provide a response. after the year any recommendations not implemented

we obtain a report. so the nature of our primary follow up the audit committee assigns our work. i'm not aware of any additional if you mean planned at the mobile home. anyone can request through that committee and we will follow had they approve. jools i have a question. >> the penalties that you talk b. how much are they? and on average? off the top of my head the pens this were imposed the result of investigations in some case in the millions of dollars. but i could not tell you for sure when they were. but to date in term it is of penalties and imposed as a result of the audits there have been none. >> thank you.

thank you for your questions, commissioner preston? >> thank you, chair fielder and thank you to mr. klein and fielder for the work on this and the presentation. i am curious about if you can expand a little on the comments around the cpu c not having -- not consistentsly auditing the districts. and i just wondering -- and that also include the high risk areas, what response if any was provided on this? is that lack of resources is that they claimed do those. or other form of methodology there is a method to the approach? what did you get back from them? explaining that? >> so it has been awhile sings

the audit. >> i do, absolutely. thank you. the cpu c maintained that they did have a process by which they evaluated. they were unable to demonstrate that to us. so when we ask for that documentation to show how they would designate high risk and prioritize the auditing they were unable to provide that for us. that's why we recommended to the legislator directly for thome prioritize districts. >> and just i 19unable or unwilling? i'm were they claiming a proprietary or other thing they were barod a privilege or. >> no, no. >> or they refused to turn it over. >> was not they refused they were indicating that what they had done was how they

prioritized it. that the way they had conducted the audit was evidence of how they prioritizing the work. of and so, you know we were unable to see methodology to show why they were selecting certain districts at certain times or go back to a district. >> well, glad to see it. to say -- doing that we can't tell you managed is look how we did it. in the managed and draw your strange, and unsatisfactorily way.

>> demonstrates not a lack of seriousness around the prevention side opposed to the more punishment and response -- side. but and i appreciate the recommendation to have a schedule of penalties and more clarity. i guess i am i do want to clarify one thing to recommend this going forward but i want to be clear on what the existing tools are. well is no actual barrier to them issuing penalties or is there. any reason they could not do this now? and -- it changes necessary. they can do that now >> they have the authority since 2014 to issue penalties. they have not done so. >> for example, cpu c issued a 2.5 million dollars penalty in 2021 for 55 upon,000 violations

of a general under. required inspections of distribution poles. we found they identified the same issues in distribution audits. they identified 200 violations of the same general order in the audits. and 2400. violations in another one but did in the issue penalties. so we were finding the same issues in the investigations and the audits the audits not resulting in any penalties. >> thank you for highlighting that. it is a key finding and recommendation. the same about the other issue upon around the audit what explanation do you get backs why they have not issued if any a single penalty of stemming from an audit? >> the argument was issuing a penalty would not necessarily increase compliance.

they did not feel that would have an impact on the agility's compliance with the general orders we disagreed. and they gave you that explanation in writing or in person. in person i'm curious if they kept a straight face. in writing or person? >> i got it right here. indicated the penalties may be viewed punitive method for gaining compliance but don't ensure an increase in utility compliance. >> all right. that's really like i think -- offensive to anyone in the state harmed by this and anyone who is serious about addressing the issues understandses if you allow business practices that take money to fix to just continue unregulated until the

damage and find the -- penalize the company for the actual damage. they were always continue to not proactively prevent the harm in the first place. it is pretty shocking that anyone in an agency would will suggest that penalizing people based on problems in safety audits does not help protect and safety and prevent damage of i appreciate the you all spelling that out and thank you for your work. >> thank you. commissioner preston thank you mr. fellner and kline for your work and presenting here at lafco i appreciate it. >> at this point we will hear from mar frereclaim our power. thank you for joining you have 5 minutes to present. >> thanks, commissioners. it san honor to be here and to

hear directly from the state auditor's office as well as leadership from the san francisco antonio and [inaudible]. i do have slides. can this be pulled up? yes. i'm sharing here. >> i share commissioner williams nausea and anger and commissioner preston's shock. reclaim our power is near low 90 organizations and we other people who are surviving these fires and the shut offs. it pollution and then the rate hikes and so much this is has real impacts for people and

health. we are looking how to ghet out of this mess that created by pg and e. and -- seemingly not -- held accountsable by the agencies that are supposed to. so -- i'm here to present why we think lafco has a role. in -- getting [inaudible] and studying alternative to pg and e. from last march auditor report haplodiplonticed since in we see the massive failureos all levels of pg & e? the legislator passed sb84 thursday 100 billion for pg and e sketchy under grounding plan add over time will get to an additional 400 a year increase on customer bills who's rates

just went up 30% in the last couple years through 2022. the cpu c removed pg & e from the one of the mechanisms for over site and enforcement. and removed them from that process with no action on the

fires wildfires. and just last month pg sxeshgs fired safety workers the workers that are trying to prevent trees from hitting lines. all that stuff they fired thousands after they were let out of probation. then the wildfire mitigation plan that is supposed to mitigate fires, but through you know planning they pass it again despite the massive failures and rather than funding community microgrids governor newsom cut the solar tariffs folks depends on to like pay for solar system and lawmakers voted to keep diablo nuclear power plant opened committing us to the dangerous form of energy. >> what we are seeing is the very top governor newsom let's pg and e off the hook. reclaim power campaign tart in the 2020 and this is the major moves we have seen like -- govern newsom not commit to changing pg & e. in 2019 passing ab1054 this is where the safety certificates the sham process come from and bail out legislation in 2020. newsom promises but enabled them to return to exit that

bankruptcy. no big change in 2021 the wildfire plan approved by the governor and the cpu c despite 60 document failures as odd tors report was setting as well and last year pg and e and office of energy. to keep them in operation. next slide. so, how do we get out of this mess? so reclaim our power has been trying to figure out how far we, we -- get out of a corporate monopoly. senator jerry hill offered the state golden state energy and

350 was a plan b if pg and e fail today e merge from bankruptcy or failed again to operate the gas and electric services in a safe and reliable manner. golden state energy has been collecting dust when we could try to figure out how to create a replacement for pg sxeshgs and the next slide. where san francisco come in. we need to make golden state energy a reality and that we are asking you all to take that leadership with the board of supervisor for an alternative utility with needs at the center. you could we are asking to you recommend a study golden state energy act and how it can benefit san francisco's grid. because we continuing is time to have the rest of the service

territory the municipalities can -- can -- get better service. get become safe and actually put energy in the hands of the people. next slide? >> and so antonio talked about the san francisco puc report we know this pg & e is preventing affordable housing from being built. they are preventing health facilities from operating because as we reclaim our power and energy folks are saying energy is a human right and should not be privately owned. because there are things we need to live that are powered by electricity and so the our energy system and our utilities should be in the hands of the

public. not the wall street folks who control pg and e and this we cannot change their ways. and so i just you know, i am new to who life lafco is but you were created through voters and residents who wanted to create a municipal utility district. that have been prevented from doing so. we think that is pg and e is a barrier but think you can still pursue your mission. you tried wrestle your way out of their strangle hold offer to buy out the grids. we think that san francisco's freedom from pg and e can liberate other municipalities and customers that suffer under pg and e. so, we think that -- san francisco is probably the most

powerful city in pg and e service territory. can help us the rest of us accomplish this move for alternative utility under and we can do that under the law under golden state energy. >> and yea. reclaim our power. >> hear when we are organizationed and willing to partnerow in that path way to succeeding pg and e. thank you. >> thank you. i really appreciate your work and everyone in retlaim claim our power's work to keep drumming on this. you know, pg and e as you said, it is headquartered i believe in san francisco. just blocks down from me. here in mission. and -- i do want to look at you

think about pg and e and decarbonization separate issues here dealing with the cca. i'm seeing increaseingly in the city and supervisor ronen lead a hearing on this almost a year ago. is that pg & e is holding up dozens of projects. having the housing and schools and having to do with the different, important infrastructure projects. and holding up a lot of progress in decarbonizing our buildings. you know -- they are requiring ridiculous amounts of transformers across the city like enough housing transformers. this is an issue with the city attorney and a lot of progress made. in the courts related to perk

and you know -- [inaudible]. but pg & e is -- as a distributor of our power a crucial aspect to decarbonizing our city. and so i want to say, thank you for your work and -- i'm curious to hear if others have questions or anything they want to share. commissioner williams. >> i think i don't have to ask anymore questions. just -- thank you it --s these

things are an uphill battle and appreciate your resilience in this and the work you do and bringing this forward. i look forward to seeing you again. that's all. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner williams and commissioner preston. >> thank you, and i think my colleagues have summed it up. i will not repeat what but i do thank all folks involved in reclaim our power and other activists who are continuing to push. these fights that are so long-term against entrenched inaction by many state leaders. are the hardest fight there is is not the -- until there is the fire or the price gouging or the

shut offs or thing that gets peopleup set in the moment rightfully so, can be harder to organize around the longer term infrastructure changes that lafco is committed to. i'm sure i speak for other in saying that we welcome your engagement with lafco staff. and appreciate your activism very much. >> thank you. commissioner, preston. are there can we open public comment and members of the public feel free to lineup upon to share thoughts on this item. >> thank you. if there are members of the public had would like to comment on item 4, dial star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold continue to wait until you have been unmuted. we have 6 callers with low in the queue. mr. lamb can you forward the first caller?

>> hi. i'm shanea and i cemetery the reclaim our power campaign. thank you to lafco and the state auditors for and reclaim power to shed light on the critical issues presented on today. reclaim power raising issues with pg and emitgation plan and safety certificate for over 2 years. neither process leads to safety and the includers in energy safety apointed by the governoror have not done enough. seeing the certains echoed by life landfall and the staid auditor gives me hope to finding a solution for the pg and e problem. golden state energy act to allow near receivetory take over pg and e creates not for profit alternative who we know prioritizes share hold and profits over safety.

the time for asking pg and e to change is over. time for a new utility to serve and break the monopoly on the energy system. and allow localities like san francisco to implement solution toes meet the needs of our communities in the safe compounding climate and economic crisis. vote yes on the resolution asking the governoror to follow the recommendations of auditor's report and allow lafco to feel study golden state energy and what impacts would be on san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next caller. i'm brian employmented to thank the commission for work. it is obvious you care about san francisco rate payors and [inaudible] and appreciate the [inaudible]. pg and e raised rates 20% the

last 2 years. 18% this year and what tell do? they will pay back dividends. really, what they care about is wall street and do the catch up. you know they tried duck and cover and we will if i can everything. but had they get a chance all the money goes from california and san francisco to wall street that is wrong. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. >> good morning commissioners. i'm eric brooks with the local grass-roots organization our city san francisco and the state wide coalition california for energy choice. i wanted drill down in more specifics about hat solution would look like. so, golden state energy i think the best fit for this to allow

local communities to be better for their local community on local benefits is for the state to just take over the [inaudible] the state take over the wires pg and e owns and would still leave in place a local community choice programs and municipality utiliies like in sacramento and allow communities in the 40 to do either with the state controlling the wires. it is like the pg and e wagz now where local communities do municipal or community choice. and that way, if the state takes over the scombiers it does in the do what it takes to help local communities do microgrids and protect communities and make sure renewables in communities and all the local benefits, the law would allow local approximate upon communities to do it themselves x. that would make it so we can do a mublg faster sack sag was the last

city that did municipal utility under pg and e had to fight them in court for 20 dwroers get control of the wires. we need to build clean energy before we can't be in a battle with them in court for 20 year before we build local clean energy and microgrid network. that is what that would look like and we did a coalition did propose this to the state awhile ago but did in the take it up. that's and we can do that on the ballot if the legislatedors will not do it and very likely will not a lot most of them are bought by pg and e, frankly. i wanted to put out there. and another key solution regardless of the state level is to pursue the local build out of a clean energy network that i sent you an all right about that was signed by 18 organizations. we need that plan to move

forward this year. and00 eye will be contacting you all in the future about getting that rolling. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. we have 7 callers in the queue with 2 in the speaking queue. next speaker, please. >> hello this is [inaudible] i'm in district 5. i echo everyone's saying and reclaim power. hoping lafco can pass a resolution. to fit their business model is all about really making money. i think this is the highest paid ceo in 202150 million dollars. [inaudible] the whole model from investors to business is trying to save moncompetence not invest

in solutions and they raise rates but -- you know the rates are just going to -- executives or investors and it is in the providing solutions or safety and things will get worse hopefully lafco and the city can step up. [inaudible]. thank you. >> thank you very much. that was the last speaker. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. thank you to the commenters. thank you reclaim our power and sharing your work. really, really thankful for it. and seeing that there are no members in the queue folks in the comment line public comment is closed. of now -- commissioners, there

hen no action to stand up you know, make these audits robust and to fulfill the vision of golden state energy i'm concerned about the impacts on electricity services to san francisco as pg and e still continue its operate the way they are. i would love to make a motion directing jeremy pollock to work on a brief study out lining what would be needed for a comprehensive study of enacting golden state energy and out lining the potential impacts on electricity service in san francisco of transitioning to golden state energy. can i have a second for this motion? >> second. >> thank you commissioner williams. moved by myself and seconded by commissioner williams. madam clerk, call the roll.

>> thank you on the motion vice chair fielder. >> aye. >> member williams. >> aye. >> member preston. >> aye. >> there are 3 aye's. >> great. thank you fellow commissioners. and the item is approved. can you call item 5? >> item 5 the community choice aggregation cca activity's report. members who wish to provide comment on this item call 415-554-0001, access code: 2499 048 6443 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. wait until the system indicate it is you have been unmute exclude begin your comments thank you.

>> madam clerk we'll hear from general manager clean power sf. it you can keep your presentation to nenlts that would be much appreciated. >> thank you. chair approximate vice chair fielder good morning lafco commissioners i have a presentation thank you very much. can you see the presentation now? >> yea. as, there we go. great. thank you vice chair fielder. >> once again i'ming mike hinze the department assistant general manager for the puc power enterprise responsible for

the cleanpowersf program. before i dive in here first, i wanted thank you for your last. item in amplifying the state safety odd and i challenges we had with pg and e. i wanted to address the lafco mou we heard at your december meeting. and lafco puc meeting that addressed us on january 10th. at this meeting, puc staff, myself presented the mou with our staff recommendation. that the mou be approved and the commission authorized the general manager to execute the agreement. of during the discussion of the itemful the commission identified areas of concern. and commissioners indicated that they would loishg more time to consider the mou before taking action on it.

of so my understanding at this point is there are conversations on the matter that will determine next steps. of course, we'll continue to stay in touch with the executive officer on this topic and we will -- have more in the future. >> with that i will jump in my presentation with the 10 minute in minds. for the bvenls my update i will cover our service statistics. new cleanpowersf generation rates. activities related our development and operation of customer programs and power supply procurement. our cleanpowersf program continues to successful low serve customers and participation in the program is stable. we seen anup tick in customer opt outs the past year. our opt out rate is now 4.4%.

this is rounding to the near ef10th of percentage. and that's about a 10th of a percent year over year. and -- even though our super green participation rate is 2.1%, that participation and product is increasing, most low due to xhshl opt outs. and most of these opt ups have in in response to the stele's renewable energy ordinance. requires all buildings greater than 500 thousand dollars square feet to take service from a renewable energy product december 21 of 22. the additional commercial customer opt out ups they have not moved that enrollment number too much. they brought a lot of energy usage that has bumped up our

projected super green sales to 8% of cleanpowersf retail sales that is up from 6% left year. so -- that is 30% increase year over year. we promote our renewable power products to customers to efforts to comply with the ordinance and we are expecting additional growth in super green participation this year. >> at your last of meet nothing november i reported this cleanpowersf was prepare being a new generation rate for home electrification. for approval by puc commission in january. on. january 10 the puc commission approved the e elect home electrification rate for

generation serve. the e elect available to customers and install electric vehicle charging and energy storage or heat pumping for water heating or space heating and cooling. the rate will compliment or pair with pg sxeshgs distribution rate. required to be implemented by the puc. a portion of pg and e charges replaced with flat fee. >> the new rate employs time of use period and e eliminates the increase above that removes disincentive too use more power. with electrification.

>> the puc system adopted rate package on the board for for review and we participate the rate will start in february. >>. the programs. prepared a summary of the 22 peek day pricing ending on october 21ch. peek day price suggest an upon demand response this incentivizes large commercial customers to ruse electricity consumption 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on events days in the sum and early fall. >> event days called with the grid will being strained typically due to high temperatures. clone clean the season the end of october earned billed credit to participates customer january bills. this marks the fourth year that cleanpowersf offer third degree program. 36 accounts in the 2022 season.

representing a 16% increase. compared to the 2021 season. >> we called 11 event days during participates reduced electricity usage by 61 megawatt hours. the 2021 season had sick event days with demand reduction of 26.5 megawatt hours 225% increase in demand reduction for less than twice the event days called the poke day pricing continues to grow. and successful low provided demand response from largest customers. this occurred during timeless the grid is strained and green house e missions from electricity production are highest. >> here say snapshot of the other customer offerings. should be familiar table that we shown lafco in the past

identifying our operating programs. as well as new programs that we have under development. we offer net energy metering for customers solar on the roof tops and offer budget billing. for customers looking for table, consistent monthly bills. and solar sf incentives visible for low income customers that install panels. last year launched solar inverter replacement program that replaces the essential inverter component for low income customers that installed solar sf. this helps keep these customers solar projects operating and a strong up tick is in this program. i discussed peek day processing. reported to you in the past about our regional water heater sinltive providing training to

contractors to promote heat pump water heaters. working with partners to extend this program which is set to expire the end of march through to be extended through 2025. so that we continue to noter market for this technology. >> we are also offering our new super green safer program. which provides 100% renewable energy and 20% electric discount to low income customers it state defined disadvantaged communities. and ev charge sf is the newest program for cleanpowersf customers. i spoke about this in november. it is a new construction electric charging incentive program available to hetch hetchy purcustomer and expanded cleanpowersf this month. this is a quick remindser ev charge sf designed aline woman changes in san francisco

building code that requires diverse to provide electric vehicle charge nothing new parking lots and garages. the program provides financial incentives and technical assistance to new and recent construction. subject to the ev readiness ordinance. >> you finds miles an hour information about ev charge sf on our clean energy program page. and finally we work on new programs including our energy efficiency services and disadvantaged communities solar programs. you see our time lines for enrolling customers in the programs. i'm about 10 minute this is is my last slide. wrap up. i wanted provide an update on the key power procurement activities. first is our 2021 request for offers for renewable supplies

and stand alone storage. the puc issued that on october 15th. of 2021. and we reported on this previous to lafco and it sought offers of renewable energy splice and stands alone energy storage. the bids were requesting offers of energy capacity and related products from now and existing california renewable portfolio energy resource renewable resources colocated with battery storage and stand alone energy storage. connected to the california iso. high vollage grid. this indicated the puc had a preference for resources operating in the 9 bay area region this solicitation met with challenging market and

geopolitical circumstances i wanted to mention to you. that have limited new procurement opportunities for the program. over the past year market prices for solar panels and equipment have risen dramaticically due to supply chain disruptions from covid-19. higher commodity price s and increased demand for renewable energy and electric vehicles. the supply constranlts and geopolitical unrest the worry in ukrainian and us department of custom's service for tariffs for solar panels susspends the import from asia and increased processes locally. or within the u.s.. all of the factors contributed to extreme uncertainty for the development of renewable energy and battery systems as

developers cannot have processing fir equipment. they contributed to requests from developers to reprice offers in the solicitation. so in response to the conscience staff requests processing and project availability updates. from some of the resource bid in the solicitation. and -- staff completed the evaluation of response received and are moving in negotiation phases for the higher scoring projects this month. the second solicitation to highlight is the 2022 request for offers for renewable energy supplies. in solicitation sought bids for electricity products from new and existing renewable resources and energy storage projects. we were seeking from this offers that could begin to deliver power to cleanpowersf between

january first of 2023 to december 31st of 2028. we are targeting contract execution with projects bid in from this solicitation by june of this year. and lastly, we have additional long-term renewable resource solicitations in development. they will target the procurement of new renewable resource in san francisco. to punishment our super green and safer products and the disadvantaged communities solar program i referred to earlier. we will provide updates on the stats in future reports. this concludes my presentation. happy to take questions you may have. >> thank you. really proernlt in the last slide. cloaks, comments or question sns and while i wait for your okay. commissioner williams.

>> thank you very much for that upon presentation i had a few questions i'm coming down from better scope of the deplorable bhiefr by pg sxeshgs. i wonder i know this silicon valley clean energy offered a 10% discount for the rate. is there a similar discount plan for the middle and low income households? >> thank you for your question. cleanpowersf rates as of the end of december were offering providing a 3% savings to customers on a bill basis. so one important point to make here is sometimes the savings are represented against generation rates.

or not prosecute against bills. one thing we tried to do for cleanpowersf program in communicating how our service the cost of service compares to pg sxeshgs generation is on a bill base i people understands bills. and i make that point i'm not clear if -- the silicon valley reference is to the generation rate or the bill in but as the end of december cleanpowersf offered a 3% services 3% lower cost on a bill basis than pg and e service. that would aplay to the e electorate we proposed to the commission adopted on january 10th. i mentioned the end of december because i think one of the callers on the last y. referenced rate changes. we are in the process of calculating the difference now given pg and e rate changes that

occurred this mont. the savings are growing. is the bottom line. love to hear that. do you know what the enroll am is for the super green safer for disadvantaged community? do you then and there number >> it is approximately 175 customer ash counts now. the program has a capacity of about 1200 total acounts. ficould explain to you how we approached the enrollment in the program. a couple years ago, through cpu c order, pg and e was required to develop and put in place arearage management plan for low income care rate qualified

customers who had arears over a certain threshold. the puc commission authorized cleanpowersf to participate in this program. way it works is -- care am rate custody morse have arrears are automatically enrolled and xafrngs for making monthly payments on current amounts due on the bill for a 12 mont period. the arrears will be waived. the full amount be waived that applies to pg and e deliver and he cleanpowersf generation charges. so, that program rolled out around the same time we were applying to impelement our disadvantaged communities program. so we felt there was a great aline am in the purpose of the programs.

so -- we autoenrolled the customers that were amp customers. into the disadvantaged communities at the time there was a large are number of customers that has declined. that's where the 1 upon 70 come into play. the we are currently promoeth the program for voluntary enroll am. and doing that through various means. but we are finding that the voluntary enrollment is trickling in. one thing we are in the process of doing is looking at expanding the enrollment in the program and a lottery so we autoenroll to the full capacity of the program. sorry for the long explanation it is complicated i hope that helps you give a flavor of that program where it is and when we are doing about it. >> no, no you made it very

clear. thank you. you are not a minds reader. you have any ideas as to why the commission the puc commission would have holdups on the mou? >> well. what i sudden had was said during the commission meeting. the commission i think was grappling with the -- sort of who perform this is work and that our utility in many of the commissioners mind should be upon conducting this work and capable of conducting this work. so i think that was their person that with -- being a significant amount of money, in the context of the whole, of what we demand

of rate payors and as well cleanpowersf needing to be competitive and nimble and fortunate. because it is in a competitive environment with pg & e and the increasing costs to rate payers. that are happening it is bills. of so i think those were the themes i heard from the commission when it discussed the item. >> thank you. thank you commissioner williamsfulit have a couple questions that relate to the e elect. i wondered to qualify for that rate do you have to have a certain heat pump or cooling system? and i wondered if there has been an analysis of how it will might affect low income house holds

who is have -- it is rare but i know -- i'm intdz in the impacts of the e electorates. >> yea. a great question. and to answer the last part, no we have not conducted an analysis on impact to low income customers and there is a lot of interest in this rate as we presents today to rate fairness board and the commission. and we are going to be analyzing this more. you know for example, you know where do we anticipate customer participation in the rate. one thing that is important to point out is it it is voluntary. so, cleanpowersf has a number of rates that -- customers can take our service under. this is a rate intended address

hafs a disincentive. for electification on the distribution side of the rate of the electric service of which had tier rates for more usage. that -- leads to higher bills result of more usage. so -- this rate provides an opportunities for custody norse electrify and add new equipment without that consequence. we -- have very few customers on this rate now. and i should say we are now in an interim basis. it is available. butt rates the commission adopted is the permanent rate. so -- we are. and we will monitor how many customers join.

and -- happy to continue to share that information going forward. >> yea. thank you. i would love to hear an update about how it is going for existing customer its is definitely needed. house holds responsiblesing increased distribution charges. so -- thank you. >> all right. well, seeing no further comments i will put this out for public comment speakers have a minute i apologize it is that commissioner preston has to jump off. madam clerk open for public comment. >> thank you vice chair fielder. members of the public had would like to public comment on item 3 press story 3 to be added to the queue. continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted we have 4 callers with one in the queue. forward the first caller?

>> good morning commissioners. eric brooks with our city and california choice. i want to speak to the mou with the sfpuc. the reality is the sfpuc is conferringive careful about rate and reliability and not does not a good fit for the role of what the lafco is asking to do under the mou. the reality than i have not done this work that we are asking for in the mou and repeatedly refused to do work to study large scale financialsing for clean energy build out that should be in the house of the lafco it is easier to be cutting edge. so that is the importance of this and we can't have the sfpuc commission holding that up.

thank you. >> thank you for your comments. checking to see if there are other callers. there is zero in the queue >> thank you madam clerk. all right. seeing that there are no more callers public comment is closed. thank you director hinze. and now call item 6. >> the executive officer's report. member of the public had wish to comment on this item call 415-554-0001, access code: 2499 048 6443 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. thank you. now we will hear from executive

officer jeremy pollock the floor is yours. >> this. jeremy pollock executive officer for lafco. i will keep my report brief here. and i would refer the commission and members of public to the attach am on the agenda for all of this information. and i'm going over the highlight what is is in the report. one thing not included in the report that chair chan asked >> neeha: mention she introduced air resolution to support the lafco pucmou and the request for lafco to keep the oversight on cleanpowersf that would be on the next agenda on the next meeting. an introduction of [inaudible] the month of january walk are woodard will do a policy survey

on policy options for promoting electric bikes for delivery workers. unfortunately the program has conflictos friday. we might have him present by video for the february meeting. one update in the report about the department of environment's pilot program for e bikes for delivery workers is they are about to launch the program and yesterday sent over questions on policy decisionos how to on the implementation plan for that program and around the criteria how toeck select the workers to payment in the program. il full up with to you see if you have feed become on that with the deadline of early february they are asking for us to get become to them on that. the reinvestment working group update includes memo by our colleague. details the time line for the

working group and excited see that next month will be presenting the first draft of the business and governors plans for public bank and the finance corporation. also year in review memo i summarized our activities last year i am send at this time board of supervisors and the puc and then a couple pieces of correspondence that we submitted since the left meeting. commentsos the epa green house gas reduction fund the fund by inflation reduction act we hope the city will access through some our green banking effort and also we submitted an all right of support for new fran department of environment submitted to the d. energy federal doe for expanding the e bike pilot program and lastly the report for calendar for the

next few months meetings and interest of time i will leave it there unless you have questions for me. thank you. >> thank you very much. a lot is going on as always but it is the new year. colleagues do you have questions, put your anymore in the chat if you do. i wanted share that reemphasize the reinvestment working group update a major mile stone will be manage in february as officer pollock said. there will be the plan for the municipal finance corporation. like predecessor to a public bank and -- just yesterday the working group meeting hosted and -- [inaudible] has submitted recommendations ahead of the final business plan. or final draft of them.

to recommend things and i -- think upon get my colleagues copies of suggestions. they range from incorporating recommendations from the task force in the city and also emergency loans for small businesses. as we seat floods we see a need and obviously help from the city in the form of grants to support businesses that are recovering the flooding of the storms ofletly. and ranging to nonfinancial support for communal institutions and small buildingses and venders. these are recommendations of the public coalition that is the reinvestment working group to decide what they ask the consultants. i will stop there, that is a lot. >> all right. no other commentses from my colleagues. madam clerk can we open this for

public comment? thank you. members who would like to make comment on item 6s press star 3. for those on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted we have 4 listeners with one member in the queue. mr. lamb can you forward the first caller? >> good morning again commissioners eric brocks with our city sf and california energy choice. mented add one more thing about a previous item the executive officer will work on that is the communication to the state. about golden state energy and state level public power. it is important that we replace the california public utility's commission with an elected state wide citizen board. and i want to make sure that is part of the mix of the recommendations we send to the

state. because obviously, the california public utility commission is trying to under mine roof solar and other local renewables. we need to do that. on the other item of the puc-mou it is clear that we should no longer depends on the puc or forced depends on them for funding and ask the board of prierzs to directly funds these programs instead of us going beg to the puc to get these things dhn need to be done. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. there are no other speakerless in the queue. >> thank you, in dam clerk. public comment is closed. and can you call item upon 7? >> item 7 is public comment members of public may speak in the purview of commission not ponent to on today's agenda. members of the public who wish

to comment dial 415-554-0001 e access code: 2499 048 6443 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. >> thank you. this is a time for member to address the commission. are there callers in the queue? there are zero callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> seeing no public speakers, public comment is closed. can you call item 8. >> item 8 is future agenda items. members who wish to comment on this item dial 44, access code:

2499 048 6443 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker's queue. >> we have a call in queue. can you forward the caller. >> yes. good morning. one left time. eric brooks. >> i aapproximately yoiz we will go to the commission first then an opportunity before they take action for public comment. >> police holds on the line. >> thank you. commissioners now is your time to share future items.

i would love to talk next time about power outages due to whether. those were surely come with increasing climate chaos. seeing no no one in the chat. let's open this up for public comment. >> >> thank you. members who would like to make comments for this item press star 3 to be acided to the queue. for those on hold continue holding until you have been unmute. >> forward the first caller. >> yea. one lasted time. eric brooks our city sf a local issue it is important we need and i sent texts to supervisor preston's office. now that global quarrelling suggest so serious and we are

getting more heat wave in san francisco we have local rental housing ordinances which require heat to be maintained. but don't require cooling to be maintained and as we get more and worse heat waves we need laws on the boxes that require cooling in buildings especially people with comp myself immune systems and the eldzerly. i would like to see lafco take that up that is another issue that is close low related to local clean energy bill as well we need to replace gas boilers with electric heating systems that are easier to control the temperature of -- each room so we are better protecting people's health. i wanted energy that issue for the future and hope to see that. thanks. >> thanks for your comments.

look for example other callers. there are zero callers in the queue. >> thank you. now public comment is closed. and there is no action to take on this matter. is there any other business before us today? >> there is no business before the commission. why thank you for clerking our meeting. thank you commissioners. there is no further accident we are adjourned. thank you all. >>

in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in

san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. >> for us, we wish we had our queue

and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone.

coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because

that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad

district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a

guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our

communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa

theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn.

[laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the

richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking

elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here

forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond.

[music] >> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary

from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them.

in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is

important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room.

>> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website >> >> (indiscernible) faces transformed san francisco street and sidewalks. local business communities are more resilient and our neighborhood centers on more vibrant ask lively. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating,

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>> ladies and gentlemen, the esteemed guests, welcome. to introduce our program today, i'm honored to introduce greg of the saloni people who worked to preserve his heritage for over three decades and he's the culture director, the people indigenous to the san francisco peninsula, mr. castro, welcome. [applause] >> [foreign language] greetings

to everyone. welcome to the ramaytush homeland. this area we call for thousands of years, yalama, it's different now, especially where we're sitting. but it's still our homeland, we're still here, we are still dedicated to taking care of the land and the people on it in partnership with the representatives of the people that live here now. so, welcome to nancy pelosi, mayor london breed and it's intimidating to follow the singers who took us to church, hallelujah. but it is traditional for us to do a prayer and for us prayer is often a song. and so i'm going to sing, i think something that's appropriate for the beginning of the subway system here. a good luck song. so, this song is from our rumson cousins

in monterey bay. the sad history of the ramaytush people is their culture was taken away from them. even though they managed to survive, we're reviving our culture, in the meantime we borrow from our cousins and relatives from other peoples of in-- in indigenous california so this is a song that my cousin taught me that's used for good luck. [singing]

thank you! [applause] >> thank you, gregg for honoring this occasion with song. it's now my honor to introduce mayor london breed under whose leadership that the site has been able to deliver, places one or two of the rabbit projects and the (indiscernible) way and finally, the full t-third line into the central subway, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you, jeff and thank you everyone joining us here today. i just want to thank gregg for blessing this space and my hope is that this is a transformative space for so many people who will be using it for generations to come. i want to thank the c-notes for their amazing gift of song, to all of us to celebrate an incredible milestone here in san francisco. one that has a long extensive history and i know we have a number of speakers today, but i do want to touch upon a little bit of that history to provide some level of perspective. back in 1989, we know that the famous lomar earthquake created real challenges for san francisco. but it also created some

extraordinary opportunities. we saw our city go from devastation to transformation. when we talk about the resilience of san francisco, we only point to so many of those examples where we experience challenges and out of those challenges, some extraordinary opportunities. october 5th y'all boulevard, the freeway -- octavia boulevard, the freeway came down and it became a community. we saw the freeway come down at embarcadero, but as a result of the decisions that were made, the folks in china town were not very happy with the impacts on the community. people like rose pack who led the charge to confront the city and expect the city to do better to ensure that visitors, that people who came to china town especially the increasing chinese population in the southeast sector of san francisco, that they had a vehicle by which they could travel to this particular

destination was very important to this community. and so, even though it created an extraordinary opportunity, it challenged our city like never before, in terms of equity and access, to public transit systems to ensure that neighborhoods like visitation valley and sunny dale and bay view hunters point and other communities had a system that worked more efficiently for people to travel throughout san francisco. and former mayors like willy brown, and ed lee, they led the charge, they were instrumental in the t-3 lines and the central subway and in the bay area rapid transit and providing these opportunities for not just these new systems of transportation in our city, but the job opportunities. in fact, this project alone developed almost 40,000 new jobs that were created over the

creation of this project. [applause] so, today we're here to celebrate an exfreud troid natury -- we're here to celebrate an extraordinary milestone and so many folks that was instrumental in providing this opportunity for the subway but let me tell you, it takes community, it takes vision, it takes hands and work and so many layers to get here, all the workers, all the construction workers, the project managers, the operators, the people is sf mta, the present and previous leaders, the county transportation authority, the board of supervisors, so many layers to make this happen on a state, federal and local level. but i must say there's absolutely, absolutely no way that we would be here today, that a project of this magnitude would have been able to happen,

where it not for the extraordinary, extraordinary leadership of our speaker nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause] i don't -- i don't know if there is a bigger champion for san francisco than speaker pelosi, because of her leadership, this project received a billion dollars, more than half of what it took to get it completed. this was a very expensive project. $1.9 billion and she single handed was instrumental in ensuring that we got a billion dollars from the federal government to see it to this point. so, madam speaker, i know you have a new title but you're always going to be madam speaker to us. [cheers and applause]

we love you. we appreciate you because it's not just a big project like central subway. it's the community centers. it's the roads. it's all of the things that make such an extraordinary difference. she constantly fights for us and constantly delivers for us. and this is such a tremendous testament to your work, your deeds over the years and your legacy, so thank you so much, madam speaker, nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause] and i can't be more proud. i spoke to mayor art agnus and spoke to willy brown and talk to them about the work and they wanted to make sure i didn't take all the credit for delivering this project but usually mayors won't acknowledge previous mayors. but i will say that it does take really strong leadership. it does take persistence. and it takes people

with vision. and so i do want to thank those mayors and thank the board of supervisors and others who have been instrumental in helping to focus on transit and i want to really callout senators scott wiener as a tremendous transit advocate. [applause] for not only delivering on the dollars here at the local level but at the state level as well. when i think about what this project is going to do, can you imagine four new stations, taking someone as far as china town all the way to sunnydale, not the city sunny dale, to advise -- visitation and taking people to work and people taking muni from different parts of the city to enjoy a game at chase center, at oracle park, people who are going to have an opportunity to use transit in a more efficient way like never before. this is really what happens when you -- you only see

something like this once in a lifetime. something this transformative. yes it cost lots of money and takes meets of community input and it takes a lot of dollars to be raised on so many levels and yes, a few hiccups along the way. but you know what, the delays don't mean denials and we're here after a challenging couple of years delivering for the people of san francisco. when i think about my good, good friend, my -- i call her my grandmother because she treats me like her granddaughter, my wong and she lives in selma. she spends time on the 30 stockton going from her area of the selma to china town and she covers a lot of ground in san francisco because she's very active. and now the fact that she'll have one line where she can go at any given

time to any part of the neighborhood that she frequents, it feels my heart with so much joy, what this project is going to do for so many people who rely on our public transportation system and so many people who want to be a part of our public transportation system as we see new neighborhoods created, mission bay, coming alive with thousands of new people, as we see the dog patch, which has been highlighted as the most hip neighborhoods in the world. as we see all these neighborhoods in san francisco transform like never before, we have a state of the art transportation system that is going to take us into the future and i can't be more excited and proud to be here to celebrate with you here today and i know that we should be focused on the central subway and the four new stations at moss connie, fourth and brandon and china town and rose pack station and right here at market and union square, but i'm, i'm

holding out hope, madam speaker, for one more station and taking us to fisherman's wharf. i'm holding out hope. [cheers and applause] because if anybody can do it, san francisco can do it. we are proof positive with this project of what we can do when we put ourselves together. we could be proud, we could take this moment to enjoy ourselves. thank you everyone for the roles that you played. it took a village to get it done, the village is here today and others who can't be here, thank you for delivering this incredible project for the city and county of san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> next up, we like to introduce state senator scott wiener. [cheers and applause] >> wow, it's always fun to

follow the mayor. [laughter] so, i'm so excited today. i'm excited as a state senator. i'm excited as a former chair of our county transportation authority and former mtc commissioner, but i'm most excited as a 25-year rider of muni. and for many, like -- yes, let's hear it for riding muni. [cheers and applause] and like many muni riders, i sometimes describe muni as my friend-enemy. it's my friend who gets me to where i'm going and we have the moments where we're ripping our hair out because it's not working as well and i am so optimistic about what's happening with muni. when we look at van ness, vrt and getting on the 49 and quickly and immediately get all the way up van ness or being able to hop on the 14 mission and because of

those red lanes, quickly get down mission street. and now this morning, i hopped on a castro street, my muni station, and took it down to pal and had a really short walk to the central subway to this station and that just warmed my heart and it makes me so optimistic for the future of san francisco and for the future of public transportation in san francisco. because we know that we need our transit systems to work for our city and for our region. this region is only going to succeed if people are able to get around easily. if people are able to get within san francisco, back and forth to the east bay, down to the south bay, we don't have a choice. we have to make it work and this is going to help make it work. the central subway is going to be a new spine right in the middle of our public transportation system and that is why i'm so, so excited about

today. i will say that this is great. this is such a fantastic day, but this can't be the end. and we have to recommit at the federal level, the state level, locally to supporting our transit systems, not just the capital but the operations too in making sure we always, always have robust systems. [applause] we're about that a little hiccup at the federal level and it's fantastic we have all this money coming from the federal infrastructure. thank you, madam speaker for making sure that happened. [cheers and applause] the next couple of years might be a little rough but i know it's going to be positive after that. so, here's to a great future for transit, congratulations, everyone. [applause] >> and next up we have state assembly member and budget chair, phil ting.

>> thanks, jeff. it's exciting to be here. we heard from our mayor, our state senator, we're going to have our speaker talk, but this is just an amazing moment. just demonstrates that if the city can put its mind to something, we can achieve anything that we absolutely want. but again, i think the mayor put it well. this was 30 years in the making. this was all about, all the past leaders who have the foresight to know that we absolutely had to invest in our transportation infrastructure, we had to invest in our city, that the only way for our city to grow is through transit. we're a city that is amazing. we'll welcoming people into downtown, we're welcoming people into our neighborhoods and we continue to grow but the only way we're going to have and guarantee the economics vitality for our city is if we can expand our public transportation. this investment, i think back about

the state investment that started in 2000, 2002, $600 million in state money started but that was for many elected officials many years ago. for us this last year in our budget, we made sure we did a future investment, $12 billion for public transportation for projects not just in san francisco. [applause] not just in san francisco, but all over, all over the state because we know that this is the key for our state to keep growing, for our state to keep thriving, for our state to make sure -- make sure our economy can grow. we're the fourth largest economy in the entire world. there's three countries larger than our economy and yet at some times, we still have such major issues that we face. and today is a day of celebration. but we cannot forget the future. the future is about investing. and this is critical investment in

transportation. it's a critical investment for our future and critical investment for our economy. thank you for getting this done. >> we have former district three supervisor and current city attorney, david chiu. >> good morning, san francisco. who is excited about the central subway. [cheers and applause] i'm going to ask jeff to come back for a second to showcase what he's wearing. if anyone can take a look at this and i want everyone to know that i told jeff that on monday, i'm going to ask my deputies to craft a charter amendment to require any department head who has a multi-year project to wear a schematic of the project on their body until the project is done. thank you, jeff. [laughter] so, each of us were asked to speak for two minutes about a theme. the theme i have been asked to talk about is the theme of endurance. the endurance of

thousands of san franciscans who have waited for the density neighborhoods in the west coast to finally be connected by the central subway. the endurance of small business owners and merchants here in union square, in china town and north beach who endured this project. the endurance of the sf mta, city staff, architects, engineers, builders, laborers, and of course, policy makers, our mayors, mayor breed, thank you. i want to relay a message from governor newsom and a number of us was with him yesterday and he wanted me to say how disappointed he was that he couldn't be here today and of course the endurance of someone who i believe is truly a bionic woman, the speak of the house, nancy pelosi, thank you very much. [applause] as a chinese elected official, i want to also thank the endurance of china town. the endurance of thousands of residents, of

tenants and of families who came to hearing after hearing for 30 years. i've been involved in the project for 20 years. when i served on the central subway citizen advisory committee and carried the approvals at the board of supervisors for this great project to move forward. it took the village of everyone in this room and thousands of folks beyond, including many lawyers in my office and thousands of hours of legal work. so, with that, one final thought which is, i'm a resident of the bay view. i come off often to china town and i'll bring my six-year-old son from the bay view to china town. i look forward to seeing all of you on this as we share the story about how generations before made it possible for generations after. happy central subway. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, district 8 supervisor and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, raphael mandelman.

[applause] >> um, hello, everybody. you know who didn't take 15 ballots to get elected speaker, who didn't have to degrade the office and how owe hue mail ate her several. i'll the chair county of the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about our sales tax and the art. so, and we -- you like sales taxes? you like art? [cheers and applause] so, i want to acknowledge our phenomenal executive director telly chang who is here. director chang, our vice-chair aaron peskin and district supervisor and district 7

supervisor, milgar is here. this was the most transformative project in our half cents sales tax program. creating a direct ride from china town to the light rail. the ta was a key partner from the beginning. identifying this line in our 1994 four corridors plan and providing more than $500 million in sales tax and other ta funds or about 20% of the full investment and that in turn leverages the money that speaker pelosi was able to get us from the federal level and that senator wiener was able to get us at the state level and thanks to everyone and here we are and i want to thank the voters and i want to thank speaker pelosi again for the role she played in helping us get that transportation half cents sales tax passed back in november. people said it couldn't be done and we got it done. we got it over the finish line. thanks to

everyone who helped us that's generating $100 million a year in funding for transportation investments like this. [applause] thank you madam mayor for your help as well and everyone who worked on it. on behalf of the transportation authority, i want to extend our tremendous congratulations to the entire sf mta organization and the china town community, malcolm young, i want to acknowledge reverend norman fung and my constituent and the former head of cdc and mayor breed and past members of the mta board. they deserve applause too. thank you for your work. [applause] and now that is the sales tax piece and acknowledging piece and i'm going to talk about the public art. made possible through san francisco's $0.02 for the arts program that places public art in publicly funded capital projects. and through this program the city's commission, ten works of art by 12 artists at four stations,

crews installed eight of them with the final two to be installed later this year. and i want to thank some incredible talented artists, tomy and yumu and claire and stark walker, jim campbell and warren, you are win, and roxi pain, and kathy. let's give it up to the artist. of course, i want to thank the work of our san francisco arts commission and their staff and now i am introducing to sing, right. okay. i'm doing it. so, these stations are indeed beautiful but the t-cert isn't about the new rail stations but connecting communities throughout san francisco from china town and bay view and beyond and that's why i'm excited to introduce to sing, parker, the senior executive director at the bay view hunters point ymca to sing to dedicated

work and seniors in the hunters point neighborhood and i'm going to get off the stage and introduce tacing. >> good afternoon, everyone. oh, you can do better than that. good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. [audience] >> my name is tacing parker and i'm the executive director of the bay view hunters point ymca and i'm excited about this station and the opportunitys that the t-train, connecting our communities will provide to youth and families and the central subway station is a launching pad for us to connect our communities and for families to be able to find and actually see each other with their own eyes. being at the bay view ymca and like other community based organizations here in san francisco, our work is all about strengthening community. we want

to ensure our family, that our youth and adults have access to the resources and the services they need to thrive in this city. and we also want to ensure that they have opportunities to experience the enrichment that happens in these communities. and the central subway station is going to make way for us to do that. literately, it is a pathway to connect our families. and this means that in district ten, our children will be able to hop on the t-train without taking two or three hours to get to china town and be able to see the richness of that community. it means that families from china town will be able to come to district ten and explore some of the outdoor and nature engagement opportunities that we currently have and that are on the horizon. i, as a san franciscan and someone who has worked in this city for many, many years am excited about what is to come from the central station and i'm looking forward to getting on the train myself

and getting to and from this city. thank you very much and at this time, okay. thank you, thank you. >> this project wouldn't have been possible without our partnership with the federal government, i'm honored to introduce deputy administrator, veronica. >> good afternoon, transit openings are a deal deal. what an honor to be here with our speaker, madam speaker pelosi with our mayor, london breed with jeff tumlin and his team and senator wiener. we're delighted to be a federal partner this this transit. you and your team at sf mta did work to complete this work during a pandemic and with supply chain issues, not an easy task.

certainly, i would like to recognize our ta staff. this project, these sorts of openings takes years and years ever dedicated energy. our staff at region nine based in san francisco, amy and -- they are deputy admin industry tors supported with technical assistance, guidance and energy, effort and encouragement, so i want to shout them out. for some, these events are about cutting a ribbon. for many more, these events equate to lives that are transformed. with the completion of the second phase of the t-3 light rail line, we're connecting people to jobs and housing and each other and opportunities like the -- you'll get a pin if you haven't gotten one, connecting communities. that's what we're here to celebrate. the extension measuring not just quite some miles maybe a small part of this

system but through the connection to allow a big impact. this one seat ride will take people downtown without bus transfers or having to rely on a car. and with the connections to caltrain and bart, it will mean seamless travel around the bay area. i'm extremely proud of the federal administrative -- $1 billion worth of federal funds from our capital investment grants program and another 23 millions to the american rescue plan. again, thank you, madam speaker for your support. you should be proud of your commitment to transit by supporting a better life locally and raising $500 million in infrastructure bonds. under the biden/harris administrative, equitable access is a priority and for the department of u.s. department of transportation and federal transportation. 79% of households in china town lack

access to a car. think about the impact of this subway on those lives and on community living and society that's inclusive, equitable and affordable. i would like to congratulate everyone who got this project over the finish line. this is a city where 80% of residents use public transportation, we're listening and responding to the needs of the local community. in this year of the rabbit and someone born in the year of the rabbit, we're reminded that the sign of the rabbit is a symbol of longevity and peace and prosperity. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope. today's celebration is a strong 1i78 bowl of our hope for the future -- here in san francisco and through out the nation, thank you. [applause] >> thank you, veronica. next up, we have president of the china

town community corporation, mr. malcolm young. [applause] >> all right. first of all, let me just start off by saying that and i think supervisor mandelman mentioned it earlier, the reverend norman fong who you know and is the spirit of china town and ways the city, he couldn't be here because he's under the weather. but i did want to kick this off, reverend norman style. i'm going to ask everyone to look to their left and look to their right and tell their neighbor, you're beautiful. [laughter] i know. you're beautiful. i know. the mayor just told me, come on. you got to amp it up a little bit. yeah, i know. i get it, i get it. let me just say for china town, the central subway means many things and the only way irk sum it up, for

china -- the only way to sum it up, for china town, this is our important gateway. the first gate is the physical gate on grant and bush just a churchle of blocks from here and the second gate is ports of the square with garage underneath but now finally, we have our gateway at china town rose channel. that's a big deal. [cheers and applause] as many folks have mentioned this newest gateway is a connector between san francisco communities from the sunny dale and valley bay view to the pings in china town and i really, really appreciate the stories from te sing and the mayor highlighting the impact the subway will have because it's connecting communities but connecting families and people most of all and we have to remember that. thank you so much. it's a connector for visitors and tourists and i just want to put a gra tude plug in there because we have -- i'm

hoping this can be a connector for folks hungry and thirsty before games, grab them some, maybe a drink or two in china town and hop the train down to oracle and chase and feeling happy from that point on and enjoying the game from that perspective. we love to work with you guys on that stuff too. just fyi. but also to senator wiener's point, the subway is a connector to a greener and more sustainable future. we all need to be getting out of cars and taking the train to china town and now we finally can, actually. that's amazing. it took more than a village to get here. seven mayors including champions like mayor willy brown, mayor ed lee and now the mayor who has brought it home, london breed. [cheers and applause] three district supervisors, aaron twice and city attorney david chiu who brought this

project through so many different approvals. frankly, sorry jeff, too many mta directors to count, but jeff, we are here and you led the mta team to the finish line, so that's amazing. and i'm glad you're wearing that suit. [applause] numerous fta directors including secretary pee who kicked this off in november, but i would be remised if i didn't mention secretary norman who was the person who brought the ffta to the finish line. that was a big deal. [applause] but through it out, there was only one congressional representative throughout this entire period leading that village and i have in my notes, representative nancy pelosi but if the mayor wants to call her speaker, we're calling her speaker, speaker nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause]

i'm grateful to our neighborhood allies and union square, marissa, we're bringing it home finally and i love your station and i love ours more. sorry saying that. our neighbors in north beach and south of market, the struggle for the subway brought us closer together and i know we're going to work on those bonds in the future. i'm especially grateful to the generations of china town leaders who fought for this. it was a true multigenerational effort. so i really need to acknowledge gordon chin and norman fong from my china town community center and acknowledge -- phil, landy, will, harvey louie and the leaders from the chinese leaders of chamber and the president is here today, i don't know where you're at donald but he looks good in the back and the benevolent association. if i have one regret, one community leader who inspired and unified china town to fight for this project isn't around today to enjoy this moment. and i'm of course

talking about rose pack. [applause] rose, it's finally here. and i swear when i woke up this morning, i could hear your infectious laughter from heaven, so rose thank you on behalf of china town and san francisco. we love you and miss you and this one is for you. [applause] thank you. >> i was supposed to introduce to sing, and i had words talking about how our communities have been connected in the central -- and the central subway will connect them more but i guess i'm not doing that and i'm introducing brandon snyder from the warriors and again, we love to work with you on bringing folks to china town and the stadium. [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> thank you. so thank you so much. this is such a great day for the golden state warriors, for chase center, for san

francisco and for the entire bay area. thank you to mayor breed and speaker pelosi and everyone who had a hand in getting us here. from the time we started designing chase center years ago, we knew it was important for it to be a transit first building. and in the central subway is a critical part of that. we're obsessed with creating the best possible experience for all of our fans. and obviously getting to and from the building is a part of that. it's going to cut 20 minutes in travel time for those going to events and games at chase center. awesome. you think about people coming from all parts of the city and coming from the east bay, they will be able to take bart, to the pal street station without going above grade, they will get on the central subway and it will drop them off at their front door. from day one, we have paid the fare for all attendees to be able to ride muni so your game ticket, yeah, clap for that.

thank you. [cheers and applause] so your event ticket or game ticket doubles as your muni ticket so take the train. so we view as with our privately financed arena, we view our investment in the city's transportation ecosystem as being foundational to our commitment to san francisco. and i can't wait to see tonight, thousands of fans getting off the central subway to watch us beat the orlando magic. [cheers and applause] thanks again and now i get to introduce my friends and ceo of the san francisco giants, larry baer. >> in baseball par learns, madam speaker is on circle. i believe she's next. we'll be brief. just want to say, thank you to everyone involved, mayor breed,

speaker pelosi. senator wiener. it has been an incredible journey. the last 23 years, muni has been a vital link to oracle park. it started as pacific bell park as you know and then for 65 years, muni has been serving giants fans. we had, i remember as a child taking the old ball park express, anybody remember the ball park expresses? yeah. there you go, yeah. the mayor was on the ball park express. i took, which line did you take? i took the 19th avenue line with my dad. yeah. and it was, muni has been so vital to giant fans creating a link that on any given night, we have 40 to 50% of our fans, somehow accessing the ball park by, through muni. going forward, i want to do a quick shout-out, mayor breed mentioned, the mission bay area. and later this

year, we have a project called mission rock which is opening. and it will be five hundred housing units of which 40%, 40% are affordable below market rate housing. [cheers and applause] for the mission bay area. as well as a 7-acre park, as well as visa's headquarters up to one thousand employees and it will be a new neighborhood in san francisco and we will have, thanks to everybody at mta and we have been designing it with them, a mission rock stop right at the mission rock neighborhood and we're very proud of that. [applause] today is a great day for san francisco. congratulations for the village that we are, coming together to make today happen. thank you very much. see you at the ball park. [cheers and applause] >> finally, with no further or

do, it's my deep honor to introduce somebody whom i consider one of the greatest american heroes of my generation and the savior of the republic. speaker nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much, jeff. i accept every compliment on behalf of my colleagues in the congress who had the courage to fight for all those things. it took no courage for me because san francisco is san francisco and on the forefront of everything, save our planet, have fairness in our economy, advocate our children and respect our seniors. you name the subject, san francisco is in the lead. jeff for being in the lead in all of this. i was so

looking forward to coming here. we're in session until very late last night, late our time and the time in the east. get on the plane, come here and i said, this is a family affair for us. official family affair. madam mayor, thank you for your great leadership bringing this to fruition, senator wiener, our assemblyman, i know we heard from phil ting and someone from haynie is here as well and to our -- where is he? where did he go? david chiu. and so many of you. and then our sports friends in our community. let me put this into perspective because the mayor started us with the earthquake. we had an earthquake in 1989 during a world series game between the san francisco giants and oakland

a's. and a decision had to be made. we would get the federal funding. we went to the floor within 24 hours of the earthquake to understand we would have what we needed but what did san francisco want to do with it? mayor agnos was mayor and the question is, is the money that the federal government would put it into repair the embarcadero or the freeway or would it be used to be transformative, to let there be light just to open up that whole area of our city. and that really began that transformation as the mayor used that world rightly. we have been together on issues related to transit and i would thank larry and brandon, we were talking sports and the

day after martin luther king day, the mayor, well, i'm not going to announce anybody's plans, the warriors will be in washington, d.c. at the white house to be honored as basketball champions and we're excited about that. [applause] anyway. so, mayor -- he orchestrated where we went from there and actually, willy brown and gavin as mayor, so not just as governor but mayor, mayor lee, we love him. we miss him. and now our mayor here. i thought willy was going to be here, but i don't want to hesitate to not acknowledge -- willy brown was mayor when -- we're trying to switch our sports leaders there. we're at the groundbreaking. i think it was raining that day too. and

somebody is speaking and i started cheering and he said i'm not finished and i said i'm not cheering you. i'm cheering that the giants just won the ability to go to the, wow, the world series, so that was, as you could tell the time of the year in the fall when that happened but again, unity, connection, community, all of this connected and now actually, physically connected with all of this. yeah, billion dollar federally, but it's a model to the country, understand this, i left the congress last night just as we got a new speaker. so my first public appearance here as the speaker of america is for this project, which has probably occupied -- [cheers and applause] has occupied so much of the time of so many of us here. you've

heard from some. every piece of it was necessary. because to get a billion dollars or more, and we want more, we have to show that there's community coming together in support of how we go forward. and in other words, when we fight for the money, we have to make sure that dirt will fly. that it will happen and as i talk about dirt flying, i want to acknowledge our friends in labor. i don't know if any of them are here now but they had been at our different events, gonzalez, and the rest, because they had been strong advocates for us to get these projects funded and funded, prevailing wage, all those things but as mentioned and scott emphasizes this in his work but in his comments, with our president,

with president biden, veronica, thank you for representing -- veronica from the federal transportation administration, we've got to be thinking of where we go next. this is wonderful. we celebrate. aren't we all great. this is fabulous. with this president, there's more to come road -- regardless what happened in the house. there's more to come because it's in the pool already. secretary butaja was here and we celebrated the carved art and bringing all the elements we're talking about here, but we have more that we want to see happen here and mentioning norma, he taught us and he was the chairman of the transportation commission when he was there and

he taught us when we were making our pitches for things to think regionally and we have -- we talk about what this means here, but what it means beyond -- into the san francisco bay area, to have people come to town and be able to move around in a really important way. but okay. we have an earthquake and are we going to put that back up and take it down, the decision was made not to put it up and cause ease in china town and so, here it is, all these years later, finally going in. now, i have to say because we're talking about all these stations, i have to say some people really weren't as enthusiastic about having a station until they saw what was going to be happening in china town. and it was, why can't this just go on and on and on. and that's what we want, what we want to happen. but it's about what the president -- what the

president is about and president biden, when you talk to him about this, he says why are you telling this. i know this. this is who i am. i took the train to work everyday. [laughter] i understand about mass transit. its role in protecting the environment. its role in having clean air for our children to breathe. its role in having good paying jobs, 40,000, you say, so many jobs to create this, but also the commerce creating the jobs that it will in gender and the president is concerned about unifying community. this money didn't have from the infrastructure bill, other money we're getting, we're getting $400 million for the golden gate bridge and we were supposed to announce that but between rain and inclement weather in the congress, we didn't --

[laughter] we didn't do it yesterday. but there's a big, shall we say, incentive for us to keep applying for resources that are there and now. and it's about bringing people together and in the infrastructure bill, veronica knows this all so well, there's $60 billion for the purpose of unifying community, the projects that bring community together, not divide them, that there will be justice in how the community and the mayor emphasizes over and over again, how the community helps to decide what projects and how and when they will develop. it's about inclusion, it's about diversity. it's about justice and environmental justice, transportation justice in a

whole different way and that was in the infrastructure bill, so also in the rescue package and all passages so we're perfect for this, right. we think community and we think in a way that's of national significance, as an example of how to get something done that meets the president's standards and not only his, ours, but also for our children and their future. and the other part of it is that so important is that it is -- it has to address past concerns that people have. i have been to many communities around the country where something went through a neighborhood, divided it horribly, people are suspicious of new infrastructure. we have to make sure they know hownt dif it will be. so, again, san francisco, we talk about the t-3

line, we were able to get into the law that the money that the city put up for that would count against a match for this. [laughter] it's a matter of interpretation. [laughter] because it is a local commitment to mass transit and we wanted that, so it's all connected, whether it's financially, it's almost the least of it although we need the money, but also the value that it brings to community and the rest. i always say to our folks who are engaged in all of this, our hopes are riding on you because it is about unifying community, it's about creating jobs, it's about cleaner air, healthier communities for our children, more environmental justice, social justice, economic

justice. and nobody does it better than san francisco to be a model to the country about how to get it done. aren't you excited to be here. [cheers and applause] isn't it a great thing? [cheers and applause] at last, we're finished but i want to acknowledge the local community people who is involved and i want to add one more in china town and that's florence chang on my case for a long time on this, but i want to acknowledge the patience of the people of union square. karen sled is on the unofficial leader of keeping peace in all of that and i wanted to acknowledge her as well. so everybody works hard to make this happen. we elected officials glory in it but it would not happen without the people who built it, people who conceived it. the communities who agreed to it and it would

not have happened without all of you. so thank you and it's cause for celebration. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]