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Rules committee backs change allowing SFPUC to contract directly with developers for electric infrastructure
Summary
The Rules Committee voted to send an ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors that would let the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission contract with developers to install electric facilities (rather than the PUC doing the work), while preserving worker protections and cost-comparison safeguards.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee voted unanimously April 12 to forward an ordinance that would allow the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to contract directly with developers installing infrastructure under city development agreements to build electric equipment the PUC would otherwise install.
Manuel Ramirez, manager of redevelopment projects for the SFPUC Power Enterprise, told the committee the change closes “a little gap” in current rules. Under chapter 99.2 of the Administrative Code, developers typically pay for substructure (conduits and trenches) while the PUC installs electric facilities; PUC rules last amended in 2017 already allow developers to install certain electric…
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