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Rules Committee grills SolarCity and PUC over promised Bayview training center, pushes for enforceable local-hire rules

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee · November 5, 2009
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Summary

Community groups pressed SolarCity and the SFPUC to honor a previously advertised Bayview training center tied to the GoSolar SF pilot. SolarCity cited financing and market shifts; the committee asked the PUC and community partners to negotiate enforceable workforce and local-hire measures and continued the item.

A packed Rules Committee hearing on Nov. 5 focused on whether SolarCity will deliver a training center in Bayview-Hunters Point that had been advertised as part of the GoSolar SF pilot incentive package.

SolarCity’s local representative described the company’s growth, the collapse of a major financing commitment and subsequent replacements, and said the firm had identified Bayview sites and discussed partnerships with community organizations but placed the plan on hold when market conditions deteriorated. “We have committed to build out the…

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