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LAFCO presses to accelerate San Francisco Community Choice work, authorizes one senior hire
Summary
At its Jan. 23 meeting, San Francisco LAFCO reviewed consultant tasks for implementing Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), urged SFPUC to sign imminent contracts with GES, debated costly legal and financing tasks (H-bonds, Hetch Hetchy feasibility) and authorized the executive director to hire one senior staffer to advance the program.
San Francisco LAFCO used much of its Jan. 23 meeting to press for faster implementation of Community Choice Aggregation, the local program intended to increase renewable energy procurement and reduce reliance on fossil-fired plants. Commissioners and staff debated which consultant tasks to fund immediately and gave the PUC a month to sign its task orders before LAFCO steps in.
The meeting’s central decision point focused on Item 5: a staff summary of consultant proposals for tasks A through G tied to the CCA program. Interim executive officer and legal counsel Nancy Miller told commissioners the SFPUC is “using basically the same consultants that we are” and recommended allowing SFPUC to finalize task orders for several items (notably tasks C and D and part of E) with GES. Miller said LAFCO should be authorized to contract with GES for the same work and price if SFPUC…
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