July 13, 2000

MINUTES

Thursday, July 13, 2000 at 4:00 p.m.

City Hall

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 82

The meeting was called to order by Chair Philip DeAndrade.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

9. The minutes were approved as written.

10. CONSIDERATION AND ADOPTION OF BY-LAWS

17. Mr. Millet moved that the wording of Article I, Section 2, Purpose of the Task Force be taken from the Board of Supervisors’ legislation (Resolution No. 362-99, lines 6-11). Ms. Drefke seconded the motion. Mr. Boileau suggested that the words, "and other bodies," be added to the sentence that provides that the Task Force as in "shall provide the City or other bodies with input" .

    Mr. Boileau also suggested that the words, "adversely" and "safety" be deleted from lines 8 and 9 of the above-mentioned section of the Board Resolution establishing the this Task Force. Moved by Mr. Firth, seconded by Mr. Millet, the Task Force unanimously

    approved Mr. Boileau’s changes and the By-Laws were adopted.

18. PRELIMINARY IDENTIFICATION OF ISSUES FOR THE TASK FORCE

25. Members offered suggestions for input for the Task Force’s consideration.

    Ms. Ames: wants information from SAGE and other groups.

    Mr. DeAndrade: utilization of committees to focus on the various topics.

    Mr. Wilson : Task Force should utilize the resources of: the California Energy Commission and call on the environmental law and justice clinics at Golden Gate Law (Director Alan Ramos) School and Hastings College of the Law; also that the Task Force study the application and break into groups to study different aspects.

    Ms. Ames to contact Hastings: Mr. Wilson to contact Golden Gate.

    Mr. DeAndrade: met with the Public Advisor in Sacramento who agreed to meet with the Task Force at the August meeting. He also discussed the possibility of the Task Force becoming an intervenor before the CEC with respect to the Southern Company’s application. Explained that the CEC accepted staff recommendation to return the Southern Company application because of data inadequacy.

    Deputy City Attorney Gregg Wheatland explained that since the time the Board of Supervisors enacted the legislation establishing the Task Force, circumstances have changed. The Potrero Power Plant was purchased by the Southern Company and the input that the Board was soliciting may have changed. The Task Force may ask for an amendment to extend its life of its tenure; it may also seek to amend the legislation to expand its scope.

    Mr. Boileau wants a time line.

    Ms. Vietor: Task Force should look at mitigations.

    Mr. Boss: limit the mitigations to San Francisco.

26. ENERGY OVERVIEW BY PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

33. Mr. Klein: explained San Francisco energy requirements:

    SF is on the end of a peninsula; have a connection to the electrical grid that comes only from the south of the peninsula; City has already reached 950 megawatts usage. Usage forecasted to grow a lot in the next 8-10 years.

    Forecast for January through December 2000; usage projected from daily peak hours-maximum amount of energy used at a specific time during the day. At a given instant in time, City needs enough energy to meet everyone’s needs at that instant. City’s municipal load within the City is 100 megawatts; business/commercial/industrial load is about 600 megawatts; residential is the other 250 megawatts to add up to 950. Growth in electronics is driving increase.

    City utilizes generation as well as transmission; City requires both to cover all contingencies; need more capability to serve load than is used at one time. City has committed to shutting down Hunters Point-almost 400 megawatts of generation that will have to be replaced. Potrero Plant existing units are rickety, throws more heat into the Bay than a new unit will, not very clean by current community standards. Don’t want to leave those units.

    Independent System Operator is looking at different options-alternative transmission, generation, loop to Treasure Island from Pensinsula and back to SF. ISO is supposed to bring efficiency to transmission. As part of deregulation of utilities in California, all of the transmission lines in the state have been put under the Independent System Operator Commission (instead of PG&E, Southern California Gas).

    Ms. Vietor: need to look at other options beside transmission vs. generation; issues of energy efficiency and conservation, distributed generation (non-polluting) and renewables. Bayview-Hunters Point will not be shut down until the ISO determines there is enough power to replace it.

34. PUBLIC COMMENT

41. Jasper Rubin, Planning Department, announced that the Planning Department project, Better Neigborhoods 2002 involves the Potrero and the Pier 70 project; the Planning is very interested in the Power Plant and will be following the work of the Task Force.

42. ADJOURNMENT

The meeting was adjourned at 6:10 p.m.