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- Consent calendar: Adopted (9 items including minutes and periodic reports). Motion to adopt carried unanimously.

- Election of chair and vice chair: The board elected Mayor Gary as chair and Supervisor Tara Lawson Reimer as vice chair (motion and second recorded in minutes; vote carried unanimously by roll call).

- Item 11 — Finance & Risk Management Committee appointment: Board named a third committee member (self‑nomination accepted); motion carried by roll call.

- Item 12 — SD REN programs and budget agreement with SDG&E: Adopted Resolution 2025‑01 authorizing the CEO to accept and appropriate SD REN funds and to execute the agreement; motion carried unanimously.

- Item 13 — Power Purchase Agreement portfolio with Lumenia (four rooftop PPAs) and portfolio framework agreement: Approved; motion carried unanimously.

- Item 14 — Power Purchase Agreement with Lumenia California DevCo 4 LLC (Chula Vista retail site; Solar Advantage / DAC‑GT): Approved; motion carried unanimously. Staff noted finalization may be contingent on CPUC actions where applicable.

- Item 15 — Contract with Maher Accountancy for general accounting professional services: Board authorized a multi‑year contract (three years plus two one‑year options) not to exceed the amounts stated in the record; motion carried unanimously.

- Item 16 — Sublease with Correlation Incorporated for additional office space: Approved; motion carried unanimously. Staff said the space is fully built out and negotiators reduced the rate to $3 per square foot per month from asking.

- Item 17 — Appointment to the Community Advisory Committee: Ross Pike appointed to represent the county of San Diego (unincorporated area); motion carried unanimously.

Several other items were presented as receiving files (rate update; regulatory and legislative update; Solar Battery Savings program update) and no formal board votes were required on those receiving‑file items.

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Aaron Liu, rates and strategy manager, and Lucas Uzo, senior director of data analytics and customer operations, said the timing of Community Power’s rate decision is affected by San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) consolidated rate filing. SDG&E filed late and the California Public Utilities Commission adopted a requested extension that pushed implementation of SDG&E’s 2025 rates to Feb. 1, 2025; Community Power staff said they are analyzing SDG&E’s updated commodity and PCIA numbers and will model multiple scenarios.

Staff reiterated policy objectives adopted in Community Power’s rate development policy: fiscal responsibility and cost recovery, competitiveness and customer value, equity, and rate stability. Because customers enrolled in CCA service at different times carry different PCIA vintages, staff confirmed it will recommend three sets of rates (a “trifurcation”) to preserve equitable relative discounts among customer cohorts rather than creating winners and losers across vintages.

Aaron Liu said SDG&E’s January 21 filing reduced its earlier projected commodity increase; staff noted the power charge indifference adjustment (PCIA) remains a sizable and continuing factor in Community Power’s competitiveness. Staff plans to monitor any additional SDG&E updates at the CPUC and to present a recommended rate package for board action on Feb. 7 with proposed retroactive effective dates tied to SDG&E’s February 1 rate implementation.

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Emily Fisher, senior program manager for the initiative, presented results and said staff halted application intake in early November after funding had been fully allocated. Fisher told the board the program approved over 1,600 projects and more than 2,100 batteries and had paid upfront incentives on 572 projects (about 35% of the program budget) as of the report. Staff said average incentives varied by customer tier and the program included both upfront and performance components; eligible customers included market‑rate customers as well as CARE/FERA and designated communities of concern.

Program design included contractor and battery‑manufacturer training, a cap limiting a single contractor to 25% of total program budget, mandatory contractor training and weekly office hours for participating contractors. Staff reported 50 contractors were approved for the program, 77% of those actively participated, about 37% of contractors were certified diverse business enterprises, and 40% of contractors had 15 projects or more.

Fisher said the program included workforce and equity goals: staff targeted that 50% of incentives serve communities of concern and required contractor commitments to workforce standards. She also said the program emerged from policy changes at the California Public Utilities Commission that reduced rooftop‑only solar compensation and increased the policy case for pairing batteries with solar. Community Power staff said the program has been featured as a national case study (U.S. Department of Energy) and that staff will conduct a program evaluation this quarter to inform future iterations.

Board members congratulated staff for rapid implementation and staff said they are exploring a small nonresidential pilot for batteries. Staff will return with evaluation results and any recommended changes for future program rounds.

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Morgan Adams, senior development manager for Community Power’s power services team, presented the two items. The rooftop portfolio comprises four commercial rooftop projects ranging from roughly 500 kilowatts to about 1.5 megawatts sited across the region, including two sites in Chula Vista, one near Rancho Bernardo in the City of San Diego, and one near the border at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility. Each rooftop PPA has a 20-year term and a guaranteed commercial operation date of March 31, 2027, and the portfolio is governed by a framework agreement that would allow substitution of sites during 2025 if a site becomes infeasible.

A separate PPA covers a 1.7-megawatt project at a retail center in Chula Vista. That project is proposed as the first contracted under Community Power’s Solar Advantage offering, which participates in the California Public Utilities Commission’s Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff (DAC‑GT). Staff said the DAC‑GT funding helps offset above‑market procurement costs and provides a 20% bill discount to qualifying low‑income customers who will be auto‑enrolled when the project is operational.

Adams told the board the deals provide energy and renewable attributes for a fixed 20‑year term and include contractual remedies if a developer misses milestones such as the guaranteed commercial operation date. Staff also highlighted workforce and community benefits: the rooftop portfolio and the retail‑site contract together are expected to generate multi‑million‑dollar lease payments to property owners, more than $1 million–$2 million in local construction wages across the contracts, and commitments from the developer to hire local apprentices and pay prevailing wages during construction.

Board members praised the local economic and workforce provisions. One director asked about the projects’ economic benefits; Adams said PPAs provide long‑term cost certainty for the agency and an assured revenue stream developers need to finance and build the projects.

The board approved the rooftop PPAs and portfolio framework (four PPAs plus the framework agreement) and separately approved the Chula Vista retail-site PPA. Both actions passed by roll call with all present directors voting yes.

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The action gives Community Power the legal and fiscal authority to receive and administer SD REN funds from SDG&E and to run a set of energy-efficiency programs targeted at renters, small businesses and underserved communities across San Diego County.

Colin Santulli, Community Power’s director of programs, told the board the project grew from a multi-year planning and community-engagement process and from a 2012 California Public Utilities Commission policy that opened a role for local governments in offering efficiency programs. “We determined with feedback from customers that we needed to create a regional energy network to offer those same programs to our constituents,” Santulli said. Associate Director of Programs Sheena Tran noted SD REN’s broad regional support and said the network’s advisory committee will include local governments, community-based organizations and nonprofits.

The board’s resolution authorizes the chief executive officer to execute the SDG&E agreement, incorporate the funds into Community Power’s capital budget, and to negotiate amendments and contracts needed to implement the programs. Staff told the board the SD REN application included letters of support from regional stakeholders and describes 10 energy-efficiency programs designed to reach communities of concern and support workforce development.

Board members praised the staff for completing the multi‑year application and engagement work. Director Luke Schaefer called the outcome “very good news,” noting the county’s prior omission from statewide program coverage. The resolution passed on a roll-call vote; all directors recorded “yes.”

Next steps are for the CEO to sign the SDG&E agreement and for staff to begin program roll‑out and third‑party contracting under the terms authorized by the board. Community Power will report back to the board as SD REN program funds are expended and contracts executed.

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