Rules Committee forwards Clean Power SF ballot measure to full board, duplicates file for amendment

The San Francisco Rules Committee on Monday agreed to forward an ordinance known as the Clean Power SF / Right to Know Act to the full Board of Supervisors while creating a duplicate file to carry last‑minute amendments for further committee review.

Chair John Avalos reopened the meeting after a recess and asked Michael Haim of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Power Enterprise to summarize proposed edits. Haim said the amendments "would modify the disclosure requirements" and would link the measure’s definitions of "clean energy, green energy, and renewable greenhouse gas free energy" to California state law and renewable‑portfolio standards (RPS). He added the changes "state that it's the city's policy to limit the use of unbundled renewable energy credits, subject to the goals of the Clean Power SF program." (Michael Haim, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.)

The move was driven by last‑minute negotiations among city staff, labor and environmental advocates. Public commenters included Eric Brooks, representing a Clean Power SF coalition, who urged the Board to ensure the ballot option remained available while the duplicate text was reviewed, and warned that the coalition would closely review any wording that treated nuclear plants as "clean." "It is true what we have in our current version, which is that nuclear power is not greenhouse gas free and is not clean," Brooks told the committee.

Labor representatives signaled conditional willingness to support the amended approach so long as customer disclosure and implementation mechanics were preserved. Hunter Stern of IBW (speaker identified in the record) said his union had not taken a firm position but supported provisions that gave customers accurate information to decide whether to participate.

Supervisor (speaker 120) moved to duplicate the file and to amend only the duplicated version; the motion also asked the committee to schedule a special Rules Committee meeting Friday at 9 a.m. to consider redlined changes. The committee approved a separate motion to send the original ordinance to the full Board as a committee report with a positive recommendation so the ballot path remained available.

What the committee did not do was adopt a final amended ordinance; instead it authorized (a) immediate referral of the current text to the Board and (b) a parallel amendment track to produce a redlined, duplicated file for the committee to vet before any final language is advanced. The committee recorded no roll‑call vote tally in the transcript; Chair Avalos and members took both motions "without objection."

Next steps: the duplicated file will be edited and discussed at a special Rules Committee meeting; the original ordinance will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda per the committee report process, preserving the option to place the measure on the November ballot.

The meeting record shows the principal documentary references as the proposed ordinance amending the Environment Code and the staff memo from the Public Utilities Commission explaining how Clean Power SF's planned product mix would comply with state RPS requirements.