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San Francisco LAFCO presses SFPUC on Clean Power SF timeline as advocates warn delays will cost funding and local jobs
Summary
SFPUC staff told LAFCO the RFQ for the city's Clean Power SF program is slated for April and an RFP for October, but advocates and some commissioners said pace and transparency are inadequate and urged LAFCO to use its authority to accelerate work and secure federal and state funds.
San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission on Friday pressed the Public Utilities Commission's staff on the timeline for the city's Community Choice Aggregation program, Clean Power SF, after residents and environmental groups urged faster action to capture state and federal funding.
Mike Campbell, CCA director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told LAFCO the agency plans to issue a request for qualifications by April and a request for proposals by October, and expects the bulk of a bottoms-up technical analysis to be complete by June. "By virtue of this approach, I think we'll be able to identify firms that are capable of providing the services that we need," Campbell said, while acknowledging some items in the timeline remain behind schedule.
The presentation followed an outline from Nancy Miller, LAFCO's acting interim executive officer, who reviewed prior steps — from a 2007 implementation plan adopted by the Board of Supervisors to joint RFQ work — and confirmed the SFPUC has placed $2.1 million in enterprise reserves to fund…
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