MINUTES
of the
UTILITY UNDERGROUNDING TASK FORCE
MEETING
Monday, July 17, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place, Rm. 421
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
The meeting was called to order by Chair Dan Weaver, at 4:10 p.m.
Present: John Brooke David Hankin (RCN)
Chris Coghlan Richard Millet
Josh Crandall John Newlin
Steve Currier Dan Weaver
Steve Gorski Charles Wixson
Absent: Steven Aronowitz Jimi Harris (PG&E)
John Bitterman Marla Jurosek (PUC)
Lynn Fong (DPW) Jane Martin
Eric Freeman Bob Pickard (AT&T)
Gino Graziani (Comcast)
2. TASK FORCE REPORT UPDATE
Dan Weaver announced that TF is close to having a number that is the cost per trench foot (vaults) to underground in a 20B project. This is the number TF will use for all calculations in the report. One thing missing is the cost of installing the transformers in vaults for a residential project.
3. CITIZEN SURVEY OF INTEREST IN UNDERGROUNDING
TF member Josh Crandall volunteered to create an email poll to send out to San Francisco citizens for a voluntary sampling of citizens' views regarding undergrounding. Task Force discussed various ways to publicize the poll. TF agreed that survey would be available via email from August 15 to September 15. Was also agreed that link would be advertised through the Board of Supervisors' community emails, community groups, press releases, etc. Discussion of content ensued and Crandall was given authority to create the questions, drafts
and keep survey live for a month. Task Force staff, Jill Lerner will notify each of the Supervisors and request their assistance in publicizing the survey. Chris Coghlan moved that the Task Force approve the survey proposal; seconded by Dick Millet, motion passed unanimously.
Discussion ensued re types of questions to be included in survey.
4. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 5:20 p.m.
