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PUC moves forward on Clean Power SF outreach; commissioners press for local survey design
Summary
Staff sought authorization to issue task orders for Davis & Associates to implement Clean Power SF customer-notification and education (up to $1.4 million) and previewed January polling and outreach plans; commissioners and advocates urged local field partners and a $100,000 planning step before executing larger expenditures.
Barbara Hale, assistant general manager for power, and Juliet Ellis, assistant general manager for external affairs, updated the commission on Clean Power SF preparations and the customer-notification plan. Hale said timeline changes reflect the need to coordinate an early-notification period and that the Noble contract consideration has been postponed to June to accommodate outreach.
Ellis described a staff-driven customer-notification and education plan developed with the mayor’s office and community partners and asked the commission to authorize task orders for Davis & Associates up to the contract’s not-to-exceed amount of $1,400,000. “The funds... will allow the PUC to undertake an extensive public education and notification effort in multiple languages,” Ellis said. Staff plans telephone polling in January and targeted partnerships with community-based organizations to reach residents, including multilingual outreach and neighborhood partnerships for Districts 10 and 11.
Commissioners and public speakers urged additional safeguards before executing large task orders: several commissioners said staff should bring a staffing/team plan back to the commission showing which pieces Davis would perform versus staff or other partners. Advocates asked that the originally proposed $100,000 scope-development step for Davis be completed so the full outlay is based on a detailed implementation plan. Eric Brooks and other advocates also urged staff to incorporate Local Power’s evolving financial model when finalizing messages and surveys, since premium assumptions may change after PG&E’s rate refresh and Local Power’s presentation.
The commission approved the motion to move the item forward and staff said they would (a) begin procurement and community partnerships, (b) run the January poll after PG&E’s rate refresh, and (c) return with a clearer team composition and a plan for which outreach elements the consultant will perform.
