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Committee forwards SFPUC AMI contracts after debate over procurement waiver and local participation

Budget and Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors · October 21, 2009
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Summary

The Budget & Finance Committee forwarded two AMI-related items for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission — procurement and lease-purchase agreements to start installation of an advanced meter infrastructure for ~180,000 meters — while discussing a procurement waiver, required contract protections, and local-hire commitments.

The committee heard a presentation on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) program, which would replace roughly 180,000 manually read water meters with wireless meters and provide high-resolution hourly consumption data. "This new program will provide high resolution hourly consumption data," SFPUC presenter said, describing benefits including quicker leak detection and lower operating costs.

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