WEBVTT 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:57.640 Unknown: Saton. 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:55.319 Unknown: We're going to be waiting for Director Bowie Thompson. 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:22.039 SPEAKER_04: He's stuck in a traffic center on the 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:53.039 Unknown: street. 00:08:53.039 --> 00:09:04.399 Unknown: All right, let's do the five seconds. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:05.399 SPEAKER_04: Good evening. 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:10.159 SPEAKER_04: I'll call to order the SMUD Board of Directors meeting of August 20, 2026. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:14.719 SPEAKER_04: Please join me in the pledge for the flag. 00:09:14.719 --> 00:09:21.399 Unknown: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:30.639 SPEAKER_04: which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.919 SPEAKER_04: Thank you. 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:37.799 SPEAKER_04: This meeting of the SMUD Board of Directors is recorded with closed captioning. 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:43.720 SPEAKER_04: The recording will be cable cast on Metro Cable Channel 14, the local government affairs 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:49.240 SPEAKER_04: channel on the Comcast and DirecTV U-Verse cable system. 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:56.000 SPEAKER_04: The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14live.seccounty.gov. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:03.080 SPEAKER_04: Today's meeting replays Sunday, August 23 at 2 p.m. and Monday, August 24 at 9 a.m. 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.840 SPEAKER_04: on Metro Cable Channel 14. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:11.440 SPEAKER_04: Once posted, the recording of this meeting can be viewed on demand at youtube.com slash 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.960 SPEAKER_04: Metro Cable 14. 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.799 SPEAKER_04: For members of the public attending in person who wish to speak at this meeting, please 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:23.839 SPEAKER_04: fill out a speaker's request form located on the table 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placed into the record of the meeting if received within two hours after the meeting 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:09.799 SPEAKER_04: ends. 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:14.639 SPEAKER_04: Members may speak to items on the agenda on which the board will take action and may also 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:21.319 SPEAKER_04: address the board on other agenda items and items not on the agenda but within our jurisdiction 00:11:21.319 --> 00:11:25.360 SPEAKER_04: during the general comment period. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.559 SPEAKER_04: The auditorium is equipped with a safety alarm. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:34.240 SPEAKER_04: If the alarm sounds, please leave in an orderly manner via the exits to the lobby or behind 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:35.240 SPEAKER_04: the dais. 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:39.559 SPEAKER_04: Assemble in front of the building and wait to hear the all clear announcement from security 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.840 SPEAKER_04: before reentering. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.639 SPEAKER_04: The chief legal officer, please conduct a roll call. 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:46.639 SPEAKER_15: Director Rose? 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:47.639 SPEAKER_04: Here. 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:48.639 SPEAKER_15: Director Buie-Thompson? 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:49.639 SPEAKER_15: Present. 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:50.639 SPEAKER_15: Director Fishman? 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:51.639 SPEAKER_15: Here. 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:52.639 SPEAKER_15: Director Herber? 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:53.639 SPEAKER_15: Here. 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:54.639 SPEAKER_15: Vice President Kurz? 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:55.639 SPEAKER_15: Here. 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:56.639 SPEAKER_15: Director Sanborn? 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:57.639 SPEAKER_15: Here. 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:58.639 SPEAKER_04: President Tamayo? 00:11:58.639 --> 00:11:59.639 SPEAKER_15: Here. 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:00.639 SPEAKER_04: All directors are present. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:01.639 SPEAKER_04: All right. 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:06.160 SPEAKER_04: So we usually have a board member reading our climate action tip but I'm going to do 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:07.440 SPEAKER_04: it today. 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:12.320 SPEAKER_04: So SMUD is working toward 100% zero carbon by 2030. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:17.320 SPEAKER_04: There's lots you can do to help us lead the global Clean Power City movement. 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:23.240 SPEAKER_04: It's time to consider efficient watering practices to conserve water and reduce your energy use. 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:28.640 SPEAKER_04: By checking irrigation systems for leaks and considering drought tolerant landscaping, 00:12:28.640 --> 00:12:32.320 SPEAKER_04: you can be even more energy and water conscious. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.720 SPEAKER_04: Join the charge and visit cleanpowercity.org. 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.320 SPEAKER_04: All right. 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:46.640 SPEAKER_04: So our first agenda item is that item number 8 is moved to the discussion calendar. 00:12:46.640 --> 00:12:53.280 SPEAKER_04: If there are no corrections, changes or additions, other than that, I'll entertain a motion to 00:12:53.280 --> 00:12:55.720 SPEAKER_04: approve the agenda as revised. 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:56.720 SPEAKER_11: So moved. 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:57.720 Unknown: Second. 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:58.720 Unknown: Okay. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:04.080 SPEAKER_04: The motion was moved by Director Herber and seconded by Vice President Kurz. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.080 SPEAKER_04: Directors please vote. 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.639 Unknown: The revised agenda is approved with all directors voting yes. 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:12.639 Unknown: All right. 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.600 SPEAKER_04: Now we'll move to our committee chair reports. 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:22.680 SPEAKER_04: Director Sanborn, chair of the strategic development committee, will give the report of the August 00:13:22.680 --> 00:13:25.960 SPEAKER_04: 11, 2026 meeting. 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:27.400 SPEAKER_18: Thank you, President Tamayo. 00:13:27.400 --> 00:13:31.480 SPEAKER_18: We had one informational item on our agenda for the committee meeting. 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.360 Unknown: The informational item was an internal and external presentation about the state of the 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:41.360 SPEAKER_18: two zero carbon technologies that can support reliability and resource adequacy, enhanced 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.519 SPEAKER_18: geothermal and carbon capture and storage. 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:49.480 SPEAKER_18: The presentation provided the board with greater insight into the emerging roles of these technologies 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:54.200 SPEAKER_18: and their adoption into California's clean energy transition. 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:59.080 SPEAKER_18: This included strategic awareness of the key industry trends, technology developments, 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:01.519 SPEAKER_18: land use and policy considerations. 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:07.439 SPEAKER_18: The presentation emphasized regulatory compliance, long-term safety, community engagement strategy 00:14:07.439 --> 00:14:10.240 Unknown: and plans to build local partnerships. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:17.480 SPEAKER_18: It also provided geological, geographic and economic considerations along with the state 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:23.319 SPEAKER_18: of industry update on how artificial intelligence data centers are accelerating investments 00:14:23.319 --> 00:14:25.840 SPEAKER_18: in the next generation of geothermal. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.039 SPEAKER_18: That concludes my report. 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:29.039 SPEAKER_04: Thank you. 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:34.279 SPEAKER_04: Now, Director Herber, chair of the policy committee, will give the report of the August 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.919 SPEAKER_04: 12, 2026 meeting. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.159 SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Mr. President. 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:46.399 SPEAKER_11: The policy committee met on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:51.599 SPEAKER_11: There were three discussion items and one informational item. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:58.480 SPEAKER_11: The first discussion item was a review of the monitoring report for strategic direction 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.560 SPEAKER_11: 13, which deals with economic development. 00:15:03.560 --> 00:15:10.720 SPEAKER_11: The presentation highlighted SMUD's many efforts to support regional economic development while 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:15.920 SPEAKER_11: supporting reliable, affordable electric service. 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:22.919 SPEAKER_11: Key efforts include aligning economic development with SMUD initiatives, economic development 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:28.559 SPEAKER_11: rates and incentives, and supporting small businesses. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:39.360 SPEAKER_11: In 2025, SMUD exceeded our regional economic development goals, creating over $3.4 billion 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:44.279 SPEAKER_11: in economic growth here in Sacramento County. 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:49.199 SPEAKER_11: SMUD remains compliant with SD13. 00:15:49.199 --> 00:15:54.459 SPEAKER_11: This is item number five on tonight's consent calendar. 00:15:54.459 --> 00:16:00.879 SPEAKER_11: The second discussion item was a review of the monitoring report for strategic direction 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:06.360 SPEAKER_11: 14, which relates to system enhancement. 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:14.279 SPEAKER_11: One of SMUD's key values is to make selected distribution system enhancements, such as 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:23.279 SPEAKER_11: relocation or underground placement of primary power lines below 69 kV. 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:29.960 SPEAKER_11: SMUD completed one project in citrus heights and committed to three additional projects 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.240 SPEAKER_11: throughout our service territory. 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:40.159 SPEAKER_11: SMUD demonstrated full compliance with strategic directive 14. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.000 SPEAKER_11: This is number six on tonight's consent calendar. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:54.600 SPEAKER_11: The third discussion item was on board monitoring regarding the board staff linkage for BL9, 00:16:54.600 --> 00:17:02.240 SPEAKER_11: which relates to the delegation to the CEO with respect to local, state and federal legislation 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:11.200 SPEAKER_11: and regulation, BL10, which relates to the delegation to the CEO with respect to real 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:19.440 SPEAKER_11: and personal property, BL11, which relates to the delegation to the CEO with respect 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.680 SPEAKER_11: to the settlement of claims and litigation. 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:30.920 SPEAKER_11: This informational item was a review of the board work plan. 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:36.360 SPEAKER_11: That concludes my report. 00:17:36.360 --> 00:17:37.920 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Director Herber. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:43.720 SPEAKER_04: Now Director Rose, chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, will give the report of the 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.600 SPEAKER_04: August 18, 2026 meeting. 00:17:46.600 --> 00:17:49.120 Unknown: Thank you, President Tamayo. 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.759 SPEAKER_17: The Finance and Audit Committee met in joint session with SMUD board on Tuesday, August 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:53.759 SPEAKER_17: 18. 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:57.719 SPEAKER_17: There was one discussion calendar item and three discussion, sorry, one discussion calendar 00:17:57.719 --> 00:18:00.199 SPEAKER_17: item, three discussion items and two informational items. 00:18:00.199 --> 00:18:04.919 SPEAKER_17: The first discussion calendar item was to appoint Rosanna Herber, Dave Tamayo and Heidi 00:18:04.919 --> 00:18:12.559 SPEAKER_17: Sanborn to the SMUD board of directors for new four-year terms beginning January 1, 2027, 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.879 SPEAKER_17: representing wards 4, 6 and 7, respectively. 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:21.600 SPEAKER_17: The Sacramento County registrar submitted a certificate of facts certifying that only 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:26.160 SPEAKER_17: one person filed a petition in each ward and requested that the board make the appointments 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.600 SPEAKER_17: in accordance with state law. 00:18:28.600 --> 00:18:33.600 Unknown: The first discussion item was on ratifying the chief executive officer and general manager's 00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:40.120 SPEAKER_17: execution of an emergency direct procurement contract between SMUD and WA Chester America 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:47.079 SPEAKER_17: LLC in the amount of $2.5 million for fault line and transition joint repair work of 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:54.959 SPEAKER_17: 115 kV station E to station G line 1 underground high pressure oil filled cable fault. 00:18:54.959 --> 00:18:57.419 SPEAKER_17: The fault occurred on August 1. 00:18:57.419 --> 00:19:00.759 SPEAKER_17: On the backup cable, there were no customers impacted. 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:06.519 SPEAKER_17: The emergency direct procurement will enable staff to restore the line as quickly as possible. 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:11.359 SPEAKER_17: The contractor is one of only a few contractors qualified to form the specialized cable work 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.759 SPEAKER_17: and all repairs and testing are expected to be completed by October of 2026. 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.299 SPEAKER_17: This is item number 7 on tonight's consent calendar. 00:19:19.299 --> 00:19:24.359 SPEAKER_17: The second discussion item was the authorization for the CEO and general manager to negotiate 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:29.240 SPEAKER_17: and award contracts to Sierra National Construction Inc. and Doug Veer Camp General Engineering 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:33.639 SPEAKER_17: Inc. for civil annual construction services. 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:38.800 SPEAKER_17: The contracts would cover a three-year term beginning September 1, 2026 with two optional 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:44.120 SPEAKER_17: one-year extensions for up to $250 million total. 00:19:44.120 --> 00:19:48.520 SPEAKER_17: The contract supports civil construction and maintenance work across SMUD system. 00:19:48.520 --> 00:19:51.740 SPEAKER_17: Sierra National and Doug Veer Camp General Engineering were selected through a competitive 00:19:51.740 --> 00:19:53.360 SPEAKER_17: bidding process. 00:19:53.360 --> 00:19:57.220 SPEAKER_17: This is item number 8 on the discussion calendar. 00:19:57.220 --> 00:20:01.840 SPEAKER_17: The third discussion item was authorization for the CEO and general manager to negotiate 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:07.519 SPEAKER_17: and execute a 20-year solar power purchase agreement with Forefront Power LLC for a 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.000 SPEAKER_17: solar parking canopy at Grant Union High School. 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.879 SPEAKER_17: The project is expected to be operating in November of 2027 and includes $1 million in 00:20:15.879 --> 00:20:18.319 SPEAKER_17: prepayment. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:23.240 SPEAKER_17: This phase 1 project at Grant Union High School builds on SMUD's previous work with the Twin 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.039 SPEAKER_17: Rivers Unified School District on school bus projects. 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:30.879 SPEAKER_17: The proposals for the solar-only portion and provide community solar through SMUD's residential 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:36.520 SPEAKER_17: solar shares program, shaded parking and supports Grant's role as a designated emergency 00:20:36.520 --> 00:20:38.140 SPEAKER_17: shelter site. 00:20:38.140 --> 00:20:41.940 SPEAKER_17: This is item number 9 on tonight's consent calendar. 00:20:41.940 --> 00:20:46.360 SPEAKER_17: The information item was SMUD's financial results for the six-month period that ended 00:20:46.360 --> 00:20:51.480 SPEAKER_17: in June 30, 2026 and a summary of SMUD's current power supply costs. 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:56.620 SPEAKER_17: And the second information item was the internal audit services report on the status of recommendations 00:20:56.619 --> 00:21:03.099 SPEAKER_17: for the second quarter of 2026, our green energy annual verification and low carbon 00:21:03.099 --> 00:21:04.719 SPEAKER_17: fuel standard program. 00:21:04.719 --> 00:21:06.059 SPEAKER_17: This concludes the report. 00:21:06.059 --> 00:21:08.819 SPEAKER_17: Thank you. 00:21:08.819 --> 00:21:09.979 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Director Rose. 00:21:09.979 --> 00:21:15.219 SPEAKER_04: Before we continue with the committee report from Director Bowie-Thompson, I just wanted 00:21:15.219 --> 00:21:25.419 SPEAKER_04: to comment very quickly on the action that we took to appoint the board members who were 00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:28.980 SPEAKER_04: filed to run for reelection, who were unopposed. 00:21:28.980 --> 00:21:36.240 SPEAKER_04: And by taking that action, we avoid going through what would be actually kind of a frivolous 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:42.660 SPEAKER_04: exercise of putting one person on the ballot and we actually save SMUD rate payers many 00:21:42.660 --> 00:21:48.620 SPEAKER_04: hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not maybe more than a million dollars in total. 00:21:48.620 --> 00:21:49.620 SPEAKER_15: Probably close to a half million. 00:21:49.620 --> 00:21:50.620 Unknown: Pardon, how much? 00:21:50.620 --> 00:21:51.620 SPEAKER_04: Close to a half million dollars. 00:21:51.619 --> 00:21:52.619 SPEAKER_15: Okay. 00:21:52.619 --> 00:22:01.059 SPEAKER_04: So anyway, we're provided that authority under state law to avoid having rather meaningless 00:22:01.059 --> 00:22:07.219 SPEAKER_04: elections since only one candidate would be on the ballot. 00:22:07.219 --> 00:22:13.339 SPEAKER_04: So anyway, we'll move next to Director Bowie-Thompson, the chair of the Energy Resources and Customer 00:22:13.339 --> 00:22:19.979 SPEAKER_04: Services Committee, who will give the report of the August 19, 2026 meeting. 00:22:19.979 --> 00:22:20.979 SPEAKER_03: Thank you. 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:24.660 SPEAKER_03: The Energy Resources and Customer Services Committee met on Wednesday, August 19. 00:22:24.660 --> 00:22:27.500 SPEAKER_03: There was one informational item and three discussion items. 00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:31.900 SPEAKER_03: The informational item was briefing on SMUD's community impact plan and its value to our 00:22:31.900 --> 00:22:33.259 SPEAKER_03: customers and communities. 00:22:33.259 --> 00:22:37.500 SPEAKER_03: The plan is built on strengthening customer engagement and trust, increasing energy access 00:22:37.500 --> 00:22:41.900 SPEAKER_03: and affordability, investing in reliable and resilient infrastructure, and creating workforce 00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:44.579 SPEAKER_03: and economic opportunity for all. 00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:50.500 SPEAKER_03: Outcomes have included 447 all-electric equivalent homes, more than 1,100 metric tons of carbon 00:22:50.500 --> 00:22:58.019 SPEAKER_03: reduced, more than 6,500 residential electrification measures, 268 commercial electrification measures. 00:22:58.019 --> 00:23:02.339 SPEAKER_03: These initiatives are having lasting impacts for our customers, such as improved indoor 00:23:02.339 --> 00:23:07.299 SPEAKER_03: air quality, increased economic mobility, and decreased net energy usage. 00:23:07.299 --> 00:23:13.180 SPEAKER_03: The first discussion item was the monitoring report for SD5, which is customer relations. 00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:19.779 SPEAKER_03: Our customer satisfaction scores for 2025 were 97%, with no individual component below 00:23:19.779 --> 00:23:23.220 SPEAKER_03: 92%, which exceeds our board targets. 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:28.660 SPEAKER_03: The value for what you pay score were 72%, with both residential and commercial segments 00:23:28.660 --> 00:23:34.379 SPEAKER_03: above their minimums, positive drivers of this for SMUD's EV rate and solutions, improvements 00:23:34.379 --> 00:23:40.859 SPEAKER_03: to interconnection experiences, outbound communication for fieldwork and offerings for businesses 00:23:40.859 --> 00:23:43.099 SPEAKER_03: and customer energy upgrades. 00:23:43.099 --> 00:23:45.980 SPEAKER_03: This is item number 10 on tonight's consent calendar. 00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:50.819 SPEAKER_03: The second discussion item was the monitoring report for SD15, outreach and communication. 00:23:50.819 --> 00:23:57.500 SPEAKER_03: In 2015, we continued to enhance our relationship with customers and improve their quality of life. 00:23:57.500 --> 00:24:01.460 SPEAKER_03: In a challenging media landscape, we topped over 1 billion impressions, with more than 00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:07.279 SPEAKER_03: 714 million ethnic customer impressions to support the diverse community we serve. 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:11.620 SPEAKER_03: Our outreach and communication efforts included translated materials and 23 different languages 00:24:11.620 --> 00:24:13.519 SPEAKER_03: and dialects. 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.759 SPEAKER_03: Our value for what you pay metrics indicate we're making it easy for customers to do 00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:20.920 SPEAKER_03: business with us, with an opportunity area for making them feel more in control of their 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:23.119 SPEAKER_03: electricity usage. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:27.599 SPEAKER_03: Customer awareness of our programs and services remains stable, with awareness of our EV rate, 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:31.680 SPEAKER_03: SMUD app, and other customer programs like Greenergie and EAPR seeing the most notable 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:35.319 SPEAKER_03: increases in awareness for customers across all ethnicities. 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:38.200 SPEAKER_03: This is item number 11 on tonight's consent calendar. 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:42.799 SPEAKER_03: The third discussion item was to authorize the CEO and general manager to negotiate and 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:47.680 SPEAKER_03: execute amendment number one to the Transmission Agency of Northern California Project Agreement 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:49.440 SPEAKER_03: number three. 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:51.960 SPEAKER_03: This is item number 12 on tonight's consent calendar. 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:55.079 SPEAKER_03: This concludes my report. 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:56.919 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Director Buie-Thompson. 00:24:56.919 --> 00:25:01.039 SPEAKER_04: At this time, we will take comments from the public on the consent calendar. 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:04.000 SPEAKER_04: I have not received any cards requesting comment. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.279 SPEAKER_04: Have we received any requests from our virtual audience? 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:10.119 Unknown: No, we have not. 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:11.119 Unknown: Okay. 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:16.919 SPEAKER_04: So on the consent calendar tonight, most of these items were described more fully in the 00:25:16.919 --> 00:25:18.799 SPEAKER_04: committee report. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:23.839 SPEAKER_04: Item number three is to approve board member compensation for service rendered at the request 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:30.719 SPEAKER_04: of the board for the period of July 16, 2026 through August 15, 2026. 00:25:30.719 --> 00:25:37.639 SPEAKER_04: Item number four is the approval of the minutes of the meeting of July 16, 2026. 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:45.800 SPEAKER_04: Items number five and number six were reviewed at the policy committee of August 12, 2026. 00:25:45.800 --> 00:25:52.240 SPEAKER_04: Items number seven and number nine were reviewed at the finance and audit committee of August 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:54.560 SPEAKER_04: 18, 2026. 00:25:54.560 --> 00:26:01.720 SPEAKER_04: Items number 10 and through number 12 were reviewed at the energy resources and customer 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:05.880 SPEAKER_04: services committee of August 19, 2026. 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:11.400 SPEAKER_04: If there are no corrections, changes or additions, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:12.400 SPEAKER_04: calendar. 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:13.400 Unknown: So moved. 00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:14.400 SPEAKER_05: Seconded. 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:15.400 Unknown: Okay. 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:21.320 Unknown: So that's moved by Director Fishman and seconded by Vice President Kurth. 00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:24.600 SPEAKER_04: Directors please vote. 00:26:24.600 --> 00:26:25.920 SPEAKER_15: The consent calendar is approved. 00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:28.240 SPEAKER_15: Is all directors voting yes? 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:29.240 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:34.880 SPEAKER_04: Moving on to our discussion calendar, item number eight is to authorize the CEO and General 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:40.800 SPEAKER_04: Manager to negotiate and award contracts to Sierra National Construction Incorporated 00:26:40.800 --> 00:26:47.840 SPEAKER_04: and Doug Verkamp General Engineering Incorporated collectively the contracts for civil annual 00:26:47.840 --> 00:26:56.400 SPEAKER_04: construction services for the three-year period from September 1, 2026 to September 1, 2029 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:02.240 SPEAKER_04: with two optional one-year extensions for an aggregate not to exceed amount of $250 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.240 SPEAKER_04: million across the contracts. 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:10.640 SPEAKER_04: And our presenter is Eric Poff, our Director of Substation Telecommunications and Metering 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:11.640 SPEAKER_04: Assets. 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:12.640 Unknown: Thank you. 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:13.640 SPEAKER_06: Thank you, President Tamayo. 00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:15.640 SPEAKER_06: Good evening to the Board. 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:22.480 SPEAKER_06: So thank you for this opportunity to present this contract recommendation from staff. 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:24.339 SPEAKER_06: This is a large contract. 00:27:24.339 --> 00:27:29.480 SPEAKER_06: We have a plethora of things that we do with this. 00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:34.799 SPEAKER_06: First thing I would like to remind the Board is that we don't have any employees at SMUD 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:36.079 SPEAKER_06: that do this type of work. 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.440 SPEAKER_06: We don't have any civil construction folks. 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:42.759 SPEAKER_06: We have folks that monitor this work and ensure that it's being done to our standards with 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:46.640 SPEAKER_06: our construction management inspectors and our project managers, but we don't have any 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:47.839 SPEAKER_06: employees that do this. 00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:54.319 SPEAKER_06: So we are completely dependent on contracts like these to execute the civil construction 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:55.319 SPEAKER_06: work. 00:27:55.559 --> 00:28:02.960 SPEAKER_06: A lot of this work, as you can see, is covering a whole bunch of distribution work, everything 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:10.159 SPEAKER_06: from structural repairs to grounding systems to also our downtown network with manhole 00:28:10.159 --> 00:28:18.319 SPEAKER_06: access, greats, just a bunch of small jobs that all come to electrify a distribution 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.039 SPEAKER_06: substation. 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:25.240 SPEAKER_06: So this is a great example here of Station G, our fifth bank that we're adding there. 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:32.680 SPEAKER_06: This is our new transformer that is being craned safely off of the lowboy truck there 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:38.880 SPEAKER_06: and being permanently moved to its pad that will be serving our downtown customers for 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.440 SPEAKER_06: decades to come. 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:43.240 SPEAKER_06: Next slide. 00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:51.200 SPEAKER_06: So the permit strategy here, listed here on the blue, if the Board recalls, there was 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:57.799 SPEAKER_06: a $100 million contract that was awarded a few years ago, and that was kind of some 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:02.680 SPEAKER_06: of the strategies there on the left-hand side and some of the new strategies that were done 00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:06.960 SPEAKER_06: on the green table there on the right. 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:13.160 SPEAKER_06: And you'll notice that it is a larger contract, and there was a few different reasons for 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:14.160 SPEAKER_06: that. 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.440 SPEAKER_06: The main, some of the main reasons were that we have more work. 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:23.680 SPEAKER_06: We have a lot more distribution substation work that's happening around the district. 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.880 SPEAKER_06: Costs have gone up significantly over the last few years. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:33.680 SPEAKER_06: There's another main driver of why we are expanding this contract monetarily-wise. 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:40.320 SPEAKER_06: It's even just some of the dramatic increases we've seen from earlier this year since the 00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:45.279 SPEAKER_06: beginning of the war on the price of concrete, the price of rebar, all those components that 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:51.920 SPEAKER_06: go into building a distribution substation have gone up very dramatically. 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:57.839 SPEAKER_06: Attracting competition was another kind of strategy that was used to try to bring more 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:00.639 SPEAKER_06: bidders into it and improve competition. 00:30:00.639 --> 00:30:05.839 SPEAKER_06: And then I would say just the fourth final reason is just better negotiating power with 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:12.319 SPEAKER_06: a larger contract of this size, give the supply chain experts ability to, you know, push our 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:18.159 SPEAKER_06: terms and conditions, you know, that would represent SMUD customers the best. 00:30:18.159 --> 00:30:19.839 SPEAKER_06: I'll skip down to the escalation. 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:26.799 SPEAKER_06: One, two, I think was a great strategy that was embedded into this contract was an index-based 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:34.559 SPEAKER_06: formula to mitigate just annual increases, if you will, for requests at the end of the 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:35.559 SPEAKER_06: year. 00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:42.039 SPEAKER_06: This is a much more mathematical-based index to meet those criteria for equipment, materials 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:43.799 SPEAKER_06: and labor. 00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:46.440 SPEAKER_06: Next slide, please. 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:57.000 SPEAKER_06: So this is all of the criteria that our evaluation team used, including seed, safety, environmental 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:01.480 SPEAKER_06: sustainability, the terms, the commercial terms. 00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:04.079 SPEAKER_06: So all of that was used. 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.519 SPEAKER_06: We'll get to the scoring here on the next slide. 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:13.639 SPEAKER_06: But I think we were successful in attracting a number of bidders into this. 00:31:13.639 --> 00:31:21.639 SPEAKER_06: We had 73 contractors attend our ‑‑ 73 contractors were notified, 20 contractors 00:31:21.639 --> 00:31:27.480 SPEAKER_06: attended the pre‑proposal conference and we received 11 proposals. 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:29.440 SPEAKER_06: Next slide, please. 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:35.160 SPEAKER_06: And so here is the matrix as is laid out with the scoring system. 00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:41.120 SPEAKER_06: And we believe the staff is recommending to award to the top two firms here and we 00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:48.960 SPEAKER_06: believe that this represents the best value for SMUD. 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.880 SPEAKER_06: And from there, next slide, I will pause and ask if there are any questions I can answer 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:55.360 SPEAKER_06: for the board. 00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:57.320 Unknown: Director Sandborn. 00:31:57.320 --> 00:32:01.480 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Mr. Roff. 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:07.559 SPEAKER_18: There's two contractors listed here and there's a $250 million contract with multiple extension 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:13.799 SPEAKER_18: potentials that does not assume that any one contractor gets any portion of this or any 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.799 SPEAKER_18: extension of this, correct? 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:17.400 SPEAKER_06: That is correct, Director Sandborn. 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:18.400 SPEAKER_18: Okay. 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:22.360 SPEAKER_18: Because we did get an email that there is some concern. 00:32:22.360 --> 00:32:27.279 SPEAKER_18: I just want to remind people, people can sue anybody at any time for anything and we have 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:31.599 SPEAKER_18: to take into consideration what we know to be true in facts. 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:35.119 SPEAKER_18: And things get litigated in court all the time and we will find out whenever those things 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:36.200 SPEAKER_18: get litigated. 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:41.279 SPEAKER_18: But that's ‑‑ you will, I'm sure, watch these things as things go on. 00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:47.720 SPEAKER_18: But anyway, I just want to make it clear for the record that we've got two qualified candidates 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.480 SPEAKER_18: here that we've worked with before that have done good job. 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:54.480 SPEAKER_18: That is correct, Director Sandborn. 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.759 SPEAKER_18: Anyway, that's why I'll be supporting this tonight. 00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.160 SPEAKER_18: So thank you. 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:04.440 SPEAKER_04: So Director Herber, did you have ‑‑ not at this point. 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:05.440 SPEAKER_11: Okay. 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:07.759 SPEAKER_04: You might come back to ‑‑ okay, Director Fishman. 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:11.079 Unknown: Yeah, Eric, just for a point of information. 00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:14.799 SPEAKER_05: If we decided not to go forward with this contract tonight, what impact would that have? 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:21.400 SPEAKER_05: I mean, if we delayed it for a month or if ‑‑ and I don't know what that process would 00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:22.400 SPEAKER_05: look like. 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:23.640 SPEAKER_05: Would jobs suffer? 00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:29.800 SPEAKER_05: Would there be work that goes undone or gets delayed beyond a period that puts reliability 00:33:29.800 --> 00:33:33.000 SPEAKER_05: at risk or puts our system at risk? 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.540 Unknown: Yeah, thank you, Director Fishman. 00:33:35.540 --> 00:33:40.040 SPEAKER_06: So I did do a little research before the meeting here. 00:33:40.040 --> 00:33:44.080 SPEAKER_06: The existing contract I believe expires in January 2027. 00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:47.040 SPEAKER_06: However, we are running out of money in that. 00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:51.720 SPEAKER_06: And this is why we are trying to put this contract, I think, our estimates by the end 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:53.960 SPEAKER_06: of the year we would run out of money. 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:55.400 SPEAKER_05: So we have an existing contract. 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:59.920 SPEAKER_05: If we wanted to, we could ‑‑ is there a mechanism to just put more money into that 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:05.360 SPEAKER_05: existing contract? 00:34:05.360 --> 00:34:07.200 SPEAKER_15: Laura Lewis, Chief Lio, and Government Affairs Officer. 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:10.280 SPEAKER_15: I believe we'd have to go back to the board to add additional funds to that. 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:12.320 SPEAKER_15: We'd have to put it on the agenda. 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:13.320 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:14.320 Unknown: All right. 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:15.320 Unknown: Director Bowie-Thompson. 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:25.840 SPEAKER_04: Can you remind me who ‑‑ sorry, I heard you and didn't ‑‑ who has the current 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:28.519 SPEAKER_03: contract now? 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.480 SPEAKER_03: That is about to run out of money, I guess. 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.280 SPEAKER_03: We're running out of money. 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:35.440 SPEAKER_06: We have a few different vendors on there. 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.760 SPEAKER_06: I believe Arrow Construction is currently on there. 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.320 SPEAKER_06: Sierra National Construction is on there. 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:40.320 SPEAKER_06: So there's a mix. 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:41.320 SPEAKER_06: There's a mix. 00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:42.320 SPEAKER_03: Yes. 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.280 SPEAKER_03: So the Sierra ‑‑ but Doug is the new player, right? 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:46.280 SPEAKER_03: He hasn't been previously. 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:47.280 SPEAKER_03: That is correct. 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:48.280 SPEAKER_03: Director Bowie-Thompson. 00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:50.880 SPEAKER_03: Who we have now includes Sierra. 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:51.880 SPEAKER_06: That is correct. 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:52.880 SPEAKER_03: Is available for work. 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.880 Unknown: Okay. 00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:54.880 SPEAKER_03: I just wanted to clarify that. 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.440 SPEAKER_03: Can you go back to the procurement strategy? 00:34:58.440 --> 00:34:59.440 SPEAKER_03: The criteria? 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:00.440 SPEAKER_03: Oh. 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:01.440 SPEAKER_03: Sorry. 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:02.440 SPEAKER_03: Yeah. 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:09.640 SPEAKER_03: So, you know, this board for many years has been proponents of community workforce agreements 00:35:09.640 --> 00:35:10.640 SPEAKER_03: and project labor agreements. 00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:14.120 SPEAKER_03: And I know that historically it's been quite a process. 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:18.480 SPEAKER_03: So I see that that wasn't part of the criteria evaluated. 00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:21.079 SPEAKER_03: So I just ‑‑ being such a large contract. 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:27.799 SPEAKER_03: So typically in our history anything the size, 100 million, 200 million, typically has some 00:35:27.799 --> 00:35:33.880 Unknown: conversation of the staff or evaluation of whether or not this would be critical mass. 00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:36.480 SPEAKER_03: This is construction and a large dollar. 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:43.480 SPEAKER_03: Usually in the past as a board we've been highly supportive of CWA, MP, LA, you know, 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:48.000 SPEAKER_03: businesses and values when procuring large construction projects. 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:54.440 SPEAKER_03: Can you explain what that discussion was and how this did not kind of fall under more historical 00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:56.440 SPEAKER_03: avenues? 00:35:56.440 --> 00:36:03.320 SPEAKER_03: Because when I looked back I did some research, a good chunk of our large projects at this 00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:08.599 SPEAKER_03: 100 million dollar plus have had some consideration of a project labor agreement. 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:13.159 SPEAKER_03: So can you just explain maybe why we possibly looked at it and said this wouldn't fall under 00:36:13.359 --> 00:36:14.920 SPEAKER_03: it being such a large value? 00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:16.920 Unknown: Let me address that. 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:19.719 SPEAKER_15: Laura Lewis, Chief of the O'Hare and Government Affairs Officer. 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:21.039 SPEAKER_15: You're correct. 00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:27.319 SPEAKER_15: We have had community workforce agreements in the past on large construction projects. 00:36:27.319 --> 00:36:30.000 SPEAKER_15: And those have been really at the direction of the board. 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:37.639 SPEAKER_15: So for the headquarters we had a committee workforce agreement for the SONA4 wind project 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.559 SPEAKER_15: for the power control center. 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:44.320 SPEAKER_15: Those were specific construction projects. 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:48.759 SPEAKER_15: As far as I know we've never had any kind of committee workforce agreement for these 00:36:48.759 --> 00:36:54.079 SPEAKER_15: types of contracts where there's multiple projects under a blanket agreement. 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:56.159 SPEAKER_15: So I think that is the difference. 00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:00.960 SPEAKER_15: If the board desires for staff to take a look at that we certainly could do that and bring 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.519 SPEAKER_15: that back to the board. 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:04.199 SPEAKER_15: But that's why it was not considered. 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:08.519 SPEAKER_15: We typically have not done it for these types of contracts. 00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:12.599 SPEAKER_15: So I guess this is just for staff in the future. 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:19.199 SPEAKER_03: I think traditionally you've seen the board be supported if they're aware of large contracts 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:20.199 SPEAKER_03: of this. 00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:24.519 SPEAKER_03: We don't monitor, you know, we don't want to get in the mix. 00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:29.800 SPEAKER_03: But I would just suggest that you know the proclivity of the current sitting board members 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:37.320 SPEAKER_03: here that when large construction, I mean, this is huge, $250 million over that some 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:42.840 SPEAKER_03: discussion, some signaling should be discussed internally. 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:46.880 SPEAKER_03: And then if you can't figure it out that you would think this would be something that the 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.200 SPEAKER_03: board would be interested in, you should rise it up. 00:37:50.200 --> 00:37:51.200 SPEAKER_03: Because it is hard. 00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:54.280 SPEAKER_03: Because we have heard from people, you know, this started in December. 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:56.080 SPEAKER_03: But we have lots of things. 00:37:56.080 --> 00:37:58.200 SPEAKER_03: And it's hard at this 11th hour. 00:37:58.200 --> 00:38:04.640 SPEAKER_03: And I hear the concerns of why this and why that, you know, where I like to try to get 00:38:04.640 --> 00:38:05.640 SPEAKER_03: ahead of things. 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:10.079 SPEAKER_03: So I would just, you know, for the people in the viewing public, you know, how did we 00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:11.079 SPEAKER_03: get here? 00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:14.000 SPEAKER_03: We got here because it was never part of the evaluation. 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.159 SPEAKER_03: It was never highlighted as a potential conversation point. 00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:21.199 SPEAKER_03: Whether it would have ended up as one or not. 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:27.799 SPEAKER_03: I just want the public to know this was not a specific calling out, failing to discuss. 00:38:27.799 --> 00:38:29.079 SPEAKER_03: It just didn't happen. 00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:33.159 SPEAKER_03: The evaluation didn't happen for whatever reason. 00:38:33.159 --> 00:38:37.759 SPEAKER_03: It did not rise to review. 00:38:37.759 --> 00:38:39.440 SPEAKER_03: Which neither here nor there. 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:43.359 SPEAKER_03: But I know a lot of people reached out to us and said why is this and why is that? 00:38:43.359 --> 00:38:46.319 SPEAKER_03: I just want the public to know it wasn't a board decision. 00:38:46.319 --> 00:38:49.679 SPEAKER_03: It wasn't an oversight from the board or even staff. 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:54.039 SPEAKER_03: I think it was just one of those things that is a different type of contract. 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:58.199 SPEAKER_03: And I think now that we have heard from various partners. 00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:05.799 SPEAKER_03: I just wanted to clear that this wasn't an intentional miss or an oversight or purposeful, 00:39:05.799 --> 00:39:10.239 SPEAKER_03: you know, sliding of the support of unions. 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:14.439 SPEAKER_03: This was just a different type of contract that fell in a different category that was 00:39:14.439 --> 00:39:18.759 SPEAKER_03: not evaluated in our historical construction projects. 00:39:18.759 --> 00:39:20.879 SPEAKER_03: I also had another question. 00:39:20.879 --> 00:39:24.599 SPEAKER_03: I thought I saw at some point and it's been a minute because I've been on the board. 00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:28.199 SPEAKER_03: I thought Sierra had an issue on one of our previous projects. 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.319 SPEAKER_03: And maybe it was a different Sierra. 00:39:30.319 --> 00:39:37.000 SPEAKER_03: But I thought at some point in time a company similarly named was honest project and had 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.759 SPEAKER_03: some difficulty and we had to get another constructioner partner. 00:39:40.759 --> 00:39:41.759 SPEAKER_03: I might be wrong. 00:39:41.759 --> 00:39:45.480 SPEAKER_03: But again, I just was thinking about that I remembered a vendor. 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.000 SPEAKER_03: Has there ever been an instance where Sierra has not fully delivered? 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:51.920 SPEAKER_02: I don't recall that. 00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:52.920 SPEAKER_02: But we can look into it. 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:53.920 SPEAKER_02: But I don't recall that. 00:39:54.240 --> 00:39:55.240 SPEAKER_03: I remember again. 00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:57.280 SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there was one. 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:02.159 SPEAKER_03: So I would look into that again because that should be taken in consideration. 00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:05.559 SPEAKER_03: Again, my memory is not as good as it used to be. 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:09.599 SPEAKER_03: But I remember a company similarly named was on one of our projects. 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.760 SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it was fully dismissed but there was an issue where some other partners 00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:15.680 SPEAKER_03: had to come in to help. 00:40:15.680 --> 00:40:18.039 SPEAKER_03: Maybe you remember it better than me. 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:19.639 SPEAKER_03: But anyways, if you could do the research on that. 00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:22.400 SPEAKER_03: Yeah, something came up with one of these blanket contracts. 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.400 SPEAKER_09: It's either a long, long step, wide step issue. 00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:26.400 SPEAKER_09: I'm sorry. 00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:27.400 SPEAKER_09: Go ahead. 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.799 Unknown: Oh, it should want me to repeat myself? 00:40:30.799 --> 00:40:31.799 SPEAKER_09: Yes. 00:40:31.799 --> 00:40:32.799 SPEAKER_09: Oh, thank you. 00:40:32.799 --> 00:40:39.879 SPEAKER_09: Yeah, there was, it's been years now, but there was a similar contract to this blanket 00:40:39.879 --> 00:40:40.879 SPEAKER_09: contract. 00:40:40.879 --> 00:40:44.879 SPEAKER_09: And Sierra National got really busy with something else and had to step back from it as I recall 00:40:44.879 --> 00:40:47.960 SPEAKER_09: and that we then assigned the work to Lund. 00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:50.960 SPEAKER_03: That's what I sort of remember. 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:51.960 SPEAKER_03: Thank you. 00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:52.960 Unknown: Thanks. 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.960 SPEAKER_09: You had your hand raised earlier. 00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:59.960 SPEAKER_04: Was there more that you wanted to talk about? 00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:00.960 SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I do. 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:02.960 SPEAKER_09: Mr. Fishman also did. 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:04.960 SPEAKER_09: Okay, thanks. 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:14.960 Unknown: So we're asking, thanks Eric, we're asking for cost-based proposal and we don't actually 00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.960 SPEAKER_09: know what the work's going to be yet. 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.960 SPEAKER_09: So how do you come up with a cost-based proposal for unknown projects? 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:32.159 Unknown: So, again, part of the strategy that was used by the team is that we used a previously executed 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:38.119 SPEAKER_06: job that we knew what the prices were recently executed. 00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:40.960 SPEAKER_06: So it wasn't a hypothetical bid of people hypothetically. 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:43.360 SPEAKER_06: Betini gets a hypothetical job. 00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:48.960 SPEAKER_06: So that was a strategy that was implemented into this strategy where we could really get 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:54.720 SPEAKER_06: clarification on what people were bidding on and make sure that they understood the 00:41:54.720 --> 00:41:56.720 SPEAKER_06: size and scope of the job. 00:41:56.720 --> 00:42:01.760 Unknown: I'm not sure that answers my question. 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:03.519 SPEAKER_09: Could you give a little more detail on that? 00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:06.160 SPEAKER_09: How does that work? 00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:13.920 SPEAKER_06: So again, we were utilizing a job that was executed recently and that was what was embedded 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.879 SPEAKER_06: into the RFP. 00:42:15.879 --> 00:42:20.960 SPEAKER_06: So we knew cost-wise how much it cost on our side. 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:27.879 SPEAKER_06: And so we were able to really understand how the bids were broken out and how they were 00:42:27.879 --> 00:42:29.319 SPEAKER_06: line by line bidding on it. 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:36.200 SPEAKER_06: So we asked each proposer to bid that previous project? 00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:37.200 SPEAKER_06: Correct. 00:42:37.200 --> 00:42:38.200 Unknown: Okay. 00:42:38.200 --> 00:42:39.200 Unknown: Okay. 00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:50.559 Unknown: And so the proposed amount then is an extrapolation to future work from the earlier work? 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.600 Unknown: Yes, correct. 00:42:53.600 --> 00:42:54.600 SPEAKER_09: Okay. 00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:01.880 SPEAKER_09: There's not a big difference between them in here. 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.079 SPEAKER_09: How large was the bid on the previous project? 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.759 SPEAKER_09: What was the dollar volume of the previous project? 00:43:07.759 --> 00:43:09.799 SPEAKER_09: Yeah, I don't have that. 00:43:09.799 --> 00:43:11.719 SPEAKER_06: I can research that. 00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:12.719 SPEAKER_09: Okay. 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:13.719 Unknown: I'm curious. 00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:14.719 SPEAKER_09: Okay. 00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.719 SPEAKER_09: Next question then. 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:23.279 SPEAKER_09: It would seem like there's a good chance for an amplification error there if we're taking 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:26.920 SPEAKER_09: a smaller project and then multiplying it into a large project. 00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:27.920 SPEAKER_06: Sure. 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.040 SPEAKER_09: That could accumulate quite a difference. 00:43:31.040 --> 00:43:35.680 SPEAKER_09: Next question, how did you decide on two? 00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:37.080 SPEAKER_09: Why not four? 00:43:37.080 --> 00:43:38.920 SPEAKER_09: Why not nine? 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:39.920 SPEAKER_09: Why two? 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:43.720 SPEAKER_09: Normally these come to us, I seem to remember most of the time it's three. 00:43:43.720 --> 00:43:44.720 Unknown: Correct. 00:43:44.720 --> 00:43:46.760 SPEAKER_06: Vice President Burke, thank you for the question. 00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:51.160 SPEAKER_06: So the cost was the main driver. 00:43:51.160 --> 00:43:57.480 SPEAKER_06: Between the third bidder and the other two bidders, we saw a significant cost increase. 00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:02.600 SPEAKER_06: And so we thought this would be a better value for SMUD with only going with the two bidders, 00:44:02.600 --> 00:44:10.000 SPEAKER_06: and we felt confident that these two top bidders could handle the volume of work that we were 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.200 SPEAKER_06: anticipating over the next three to five years. 00:44:14.200 --> 00:44:16.200 Unknown: Okay. 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:27.519 Unknown: Then it seems a little shaky that we're not bidding 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:33.639 SPEAKER_09: a real project, or we bid a completed project and then we're amplifying that into future 00:44:33.639 --> 00:44:34.639 SPEAKER_09: work. 00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:38.359 SPEAKER_09: Now this is two and a half times at least the earlier contract. 00:44:38.359 --> 00:44:39.359 Unknown: Okay. 00:44:39.359 --> 00:44:41.960 SPEAKER_09: So we're going from $100 to $250 million. 00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:46.840 SPEAKER_09: So we mentioned just a bit about we're running out of money on the current contract, we'd 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:50.920 SPEAKER_09: be out by year end, and if we wanted to just continue the current contract, we would need 00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:54.079 SPEAKER_09: to add money to that. 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:57.440 SPEAKER_09: That's like only takes one board meeting to do that, right? 00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:59.320 SPEAKER_09: It's a fairly ministerial thing. 00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:03.760 SPEAKER_09: So if the board wanted to think about this some more or offer additional instruction, 00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:07.960 SPEAKER_09: we could do that within before we run out of money. 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.119 SPEAKER_09: I believe so, yes. 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:11.119 Unknown: Okay. 00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:18.440 Unknown: And the contract that we currently have has the right language in it that we could extend 00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:19.759 SPEAKER_09: it if we wanted to? 00:45:19.759 --> 00:45:21.839 Unknown: Yes, I believe so. 00:45:21.839 --> 00:45:22.839 Unknown: Okay. 00:45:22.839 --> 00:45:23.839 Unknown: Okay, thanks. 00:45:23.839 --> 00:45:24.839 SPEAKER_09: All right. 00:45:24.839 --> 00:45:28.400 Unknown: I have a technocratic question. 00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:34.400 SPEAKER_17: Eric, can you explain a little bit on how the pricing points are calculated because 00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.480 SPEAKER_17: they don't seem to follow a straightforward logic? 00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:44.159 SPEAKER_17: For some people with potentially higher or lower value, proposal amounts have scores 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.800 SPEAKER_17: that wouldn't seem logical. 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:49.800 SPEAKER_17: Looking at this. 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.800 Unknown: Right. 00:45:52.800 --> 00:46:00.079 Unknown: So, like, if you look at number two, the Veer camp, right, it's priced at $244 million, 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.480 SPEAKER_17: it's 38 price points. 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:07.119 SPEAKER_17: International number one is $262 million and it's got 37.54. 00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:14.039 SPEAKER_17: And so $22 million is worth what is that point? 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.559 SPEAKER_17: Point five two of a point in this, right? 00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:22.440 SPEAKER_17: So it's sort of a head scratcher. 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:23.440 SPEAKER_06: Yeah, sure. 00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:29.039 SPEAKER_06: Again, I believe as the team was going through every single line item and identifying the 00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:33.920 SPEAKER_06: quote to the price to that specific line item was how they were weighing it. 00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:35.440 SPEAKER_06: So it wasn't just an aggregate. 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.480 SPEAKER_17: So line item would mean like vacuum truck services. 00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:39.480 SPEAKER_17: Yes. 00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:40.480 SPEAKER_17: Right. 00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.159 SPEAKER_17: And here's your whatever that metric is, that dollars per hour of that work. 00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:44.159 SPEAKER_06: That's correct. 00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:45.159 Unknown: Okay. 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:46.159 Unknown: Director Fisherman. 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:47.159 Unknown: Thank you. 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:56.599 Unknown: I want to go back and kind of make sure I understand the answer to Director Thompson's 00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:57.599 SPEAKER_05: question. 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:02.679 SPEAKER_05: I mean, essentially the PLA was not applied in this case. 00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:11.000 SPEAKER_05: We apply the PLA to single projects that are large and complex and at a large dollar amount. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:17.920 SPEAKER_05: But in this case it wasn't because it's multiple different projects under a blanket contract. 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.519 SPEAKER_05: Is that roughly correct, even though it's a large dollar amount? 00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:21.519 SPEAKER_15: That's correct. 00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:22.519 SPEAKER_15: Okay. 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:29.960 SPEAKER_15: In my 25 years of being at SMUD, the board, the policy has always been a community workforce 00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:38.239 SPEAKER_15: agreement is always it's a board decision and staff brings large projects, construction 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:44.679 SPEAKER_15: projects, generation projects, and to the board to determine whether or not we should 00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:53.919 SPEAKER_15: enter into a CWA and the board has defined and outlined the parameters of the CWA and 00:47:53.919 --> 00:47:55.839 SPEAKER_15: then we would go negotiate it. 00:47:55.839 --> 00:47:59.839 SPEAKER_15: So for each single project, that's how we've always done it. 00:47:59.839 --> 00:48:04.480 SPEAKER_15: We've never had any kind of blanket community workforce agreement. 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:11.159 SPEAKER_15: Certainly we could look at that, but we have not been directed by the board to do that. 00:48:11.159 --> 00:48:12.159 SPEAKER_05: Okay. 00:48:12.399 --> 00:48:19.839 SPEAKER_05: Since it's not on CWA's PLAs, not specifically on the agenda tonight, we might not be able 00:48:19.839 --> 00:48:23.879 SPEAKER_05: to get into it as deeply as I'd like to at this point, but I think at some point we need 00:48:23.879 --> 00:48:24.879 SPEAKER_05: to have that discussion. 00:48:24.879 --> 00:48:28.159 SPEAKER_05: We certainly could add it to another board agenda. 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:30.079 SPEAKER_05: I think that would be appropriate. 00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:34.679 Unknown: Anybody else? 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:35.679 SPEAKER_04: Director Rose. 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:39.879 SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I have some general comments. 00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:47.280 SPEAKER_17: I know in terms of the previous, we saw this for the first time last week and I saw it 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:49.039 SPEAKER_17: on the work plan for several months coming. 00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:50.039 SPEAKER_17: So we knew it was coming. 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:53.840 SPEAKER_17: I think what surprised me is just the size of this contract and echo what Director Bowie 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:56.880 SPEAKER_17: Thompson has said. 00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:58.519 SPEAKER_17: The last one was 100 million for three years. 00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:01.519 SPEAKER_17: This one was 250 million. 00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:07.960 SPEAKER_17: And so I know we're trying very hard to control costs and that's one of the reasons why we've 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:09.079 SPEAKER_17: opted in what's in it. 00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:11.240 SPEAKER_17: It's a lot of little projects in there. 00:49:11.240 --> 00:49:16.440 SPEAKER_17: I definitely think we want to be aware and make sure that some of the benefits of our 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:21.199 SPEAKER_17: projects make sure that they are spreading to the communities that they're in. 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:26.840 SPEAKER_17: And we've always had this balance between our SEED program and supporting small businesses 00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:32.800 SPEAKER_17: in economic development and that balance there. 00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:37.920 SPEAKER_17: At this point, this project is so far down the path, I wonder from a process perspective, 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:39.240 SPEAKER_17: right, is there a lesson learned? 00:49:39.240 --> 00:49:43.280 SPEAKER_17: I've been on this board now for coming about 10 years and this is the first time that we've 00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.480 SPEAKER_17: really run into this issue. 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:49.780 SPEAKER_17: So I think there's a lesson to be learned here. 00:49:49.780 --> 00:49:54.559 SPEAKER_17: And so maybe that's something that we think about our process as we move forward. 00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:57.599 SPEAKER_17: So that's sort of just a couple of thoughts. 00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.599 SPEAKER_17: Okay, thank you. 00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:04.960 SPEAKER_04: Okay, Director Hermer. 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:06.639 SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Mr. President. 00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:14.799 SPEAKER_11: I tell you, I have concerns about this mainly because the amount is so much. 00:50:14.799 --> 00:50:25.960 SPEAKER_11: And also that, you know, getting concerns shared with us at the last minute before a 00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:31.759 SPEAKER_11: project moves forward is concerning to me. 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:39.680 SPEAKER_11: I understand that staff does need to have the money to move forward with the facilities 00:50:39.680 --> 00:50:43.280 SPEAKER_11: in order to keep the power on. 00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:49.760 SPEAKER_11: I'm just concerned about the fact that this is the first time I've only been on the board 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:59.040 SPEAKER_11: eight years, but this is the first time there's been so much concern about a contract. 00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:06.559 SPEAKER_11: And I wonder, I think Director Rose is right on when he says there's probably some things 00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:13.159 SPEAKER_11: that we can learn about this, but I also wonder, you know, if maybe this needs a little bit 00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:14.159 SPEAKER_11: more time. 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:24.320 Unknown: Okay, and I'll let the rest of the board members know that we do have a speaker to speak on 00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:29.880 SPEAKER_04: as Kip Skidmore of Sierra National Construction. 00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:33.200 SPEAKER_04: But first I want to add my comments so far. 00:51:33.200 --> 00:51:40.080 SPEAKER_04: And there will be opportunity, you know, after Mr. Skidmore if board members feel like they 00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:43.039 SPEAKER_04: want to have more discussion of this. 00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:50.680 SPEAKER_04: So the way I feel, and I understand that this is not a single project, so it doesn't really 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:58.719 SPEAKER_04: fit the type of direction that we've had in the past of large individual projects. 00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:06.559 SPEAKER_04: So you know, it's like it kind of slips through the cracks, but I'm uncomfortable with the 00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:13.039 SPEAKER_04: idea of having such a large contract, especially since I know that there's a lot of that we 00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:22.400 SPEAKER_04: are exploring the possibility of having a more umbrella kind of community workforce 00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:27.000 SPEAKER_04: agreement or PLA, whatever we're going to call it. 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:34.320 SPEAKER_04: And I'm uncomfortable with moving forward with the contract of this size when we know 00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:42.159 SPEAKER_04: that we're looking at having that other policy discussion about how we're going to move forward 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.679 SPEAKER_04: with sort of a more umbrella kind of CWA. 00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.839 SPEAKER_04: So also I just had a question. 00:52:52.839 --> 00:52:59.119 SPEAKER_04: So the way the bidding was done, is there anything, you know, they come up with a bid 00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:05.679 SPEAKER_04: but it was on a hypothetical thing, is there anything in the contract that binds them to 00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:10.519 SPEAKER_04: any of the elements that were part of that project? 00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:15.599 SPEAKER_04: Is there an actual requirement to adhere to that bid? 00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:20.800 Unknown: Yes, President Tomayo, there is. 00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:27.360 SPEAKER_06: We have those quotes and they are going to have to abide to what they quoted in the contract 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:35.239 SPEAKER_06: and outside of what I've mentioned here around index-based escalations that are mathematically 00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:39.360 SPEAKER_06: based that will be reviewed on a periodic annual basis. 00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:45.920 Unknown: Okay, so there's things that they specifically identified, this is what it would cost and 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:52.360 SPEAKER_04: then there's a formula to translate that to, okay, to future work. 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:57.280 SPEAKER_04: What about work that is not covered, you know, that's still under the contract but wasn't 00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:01.400 SPEAKER_04: sort of foreseen in the hypothetical? 00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:09.000 SPEAKER_04: Or was that covered by, is that already covered under the index that you just referred to? 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:10.960 SPEAKER_06: I believe that would be covered under the index. 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:13.719 SPEAKER_06: Okay, all right. 00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:21.280 SPEAKER_04: Anything else from board members at this point before we ask Mr. Skidmore to speak? 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:26.320 SPEAKER_04: So Kip Skidmore of Sierra National Construction, please come up to the mic. 00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:33.280 SPEAKER_04: You don't need to adjust it, you'll have three minutes and direct your comments to the board 00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:36.920 SPEAKER_04: and do you have anything written that you want to provide to us? 00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:39.240 SPEAKER_04: Okay, so please proceed, thank you. 00:54:39.240 --> 00:54:50.760 SPEAKER_07: I would like to express my opinion on the bidding process. 00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:57.119 SPEAKER_07: We've been doing public works in Sacramento area for over 40 years, thousands of projects. 00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:02.280 SPEAKER_07: This by far is the most sophisticated process we have gone through in terms of bidding, 00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:10.240 SPEAKER_07: incorporating small business seeds into the project along with evaluating both the 00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:16.040 SPEAKER_07: personnel, the company itself, the work we've done in the past, all of this was incorporated 00:55:16.040 --> 00:55:20.600 SPEAKER_07: and I want to compliment the staff for doing an excellent job of doing that. 00:55:20.600 --> 00:55:25.840 SPEAKER_07: Because most public works are it's low bid, you get the job and sometimes you get less 00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:27.880 SPEAKER_07: than you paid for in those kinds of situations. 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:30.160 SPEAKER_07: SMUD has taken a different direction here. 00:55:30.199 --> 00:55:34.920 SPEAKER_07: I would imagine in this contract it sounds like a lot of money, there's probably, I imagine 00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:42.599 SPEAKER_07: there's two or three hundred projects in that, venturing from projects that are $50,000 to 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:44.480 SPEAKER_07: $15 million. 00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:50.279 SPEAKER_07: So it is, I think it's an excellent way for SMUD to approach this kind of project. 00:55:50.279 --> 00:55:54.920 SPEAKER_07: We talk about PLAs and stuff which are really directed to more larger projects where you 00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:58.920 SPEAKER_07: have a $200 million substation kind of project. 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.720 SPEAKER_07: So this is so many different kinds of things. 00:56:02.720 --> 00:56:07.280 SPEAKER_07: It's slabs, it's everything that they come up with. 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:13.559 SPEAKER_07: And I know there's going to be 200, 300 projects that are going to come out of this thing. 00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:19.880 SPEAKER_07: So the dollar value may be big but the average project is probably going to be under a million 00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:21.800 SPEAKER_07: dollars I would think. 00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:22.920 SPEAKER_07: That would be my opinion. 00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:27.320 SPEAKER_07: So anyway, if you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer but I intend 00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:29.720 SPEAKER_07: to make a speech. 00:56:30.720 --> 00:56:31.720 SPEAKER_07: Thank you. 00:56:33.720 --> 00:56:38.120 SPEAKER_04: Does anybody have any questions for Mr. Skidmore? 00:56:39.720 --> 00:56:48.519 SPEAKER_04: Okay, so I want to, you know, do we have any requests for comment virtually? 00:56:51.120 --> 00:56:52.920 Unknown: I do not see any hands, no. 00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:54.440 SPEAKER_04: Okay, thank you. 00:56:54.440 --> 00:56:58.440 SPEAKER_04: So Board, any further discussion? 00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:03.440 SPEAKER_05: Director Fishman. 00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:06.039 SPEAKER_05: I'm just really struggling with this. 00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:07.639 SPEAKER_05: First of all, Mr. Skidmore, thank you for coming. 00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:10.840 SPEAKER_05: I do appreciate that you took the time to come down. 00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:11.840 SPEAKER_05: That matters. 00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.240 SPEAKER_05: I'm really struggling with this one. 00:57:18.240 --> 00:57:22.639 SPEAKER_05: I mean, our staff is doing a great job of trying to get the jobs done that we need to 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.839 SPEAKER_05: have done at the lowest cost possible. 00:57:24.839 --> 00:57:27.440 SPEAKER_05: That's great. 00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:32.639 SPEAKER_05: But at the same time, we've always, as an organization and as a Board, had a very strong 00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:39.639 SPEAKER_05: commitment to organized labor and to what that stands for and what that means. 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:41.639 SPEAKER_05: And this is a very difficult one for me. 00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:44.839 SPEAKER_05: And I'm still really struggling. 00:57:44.839 --> 00:57:48.639 Unknown: I would prefer to take a little bit more time on this. 00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:54.039 Unknown: And I don't know exactly what that would look like, but either to consider adding some 00:57:54.039 --> 00:58:00.239 SPEAKER_05: additional funds to the existing contract and extending that, and then I don't know what 00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:05.239 SPEAKER_05: happens to the RFP process that we've just gone through and that. 00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:13.839 Unknown: Or I'm not sure which one of my, it might have been Director Kurth, asks, you know, 00:58:13.839 --> 00:58:14.839 SPEAKER_05: why just two? 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:20.240 SPEAKER_05: And maybe a contract of this size should be opened up to maybe three or four different 00:58:20.240 --> 00:58:21.640 SPEAKER_05: companies instead of just two. 00:58:21.640 --> 00:58:23.440 SPEAKER_05: I don't know. 00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:24.440 SPEAKER_05: I'm just really struggling. 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:26.440 SPEAKER_05: I'm hoping that somebody has some ideas. 00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:27.440 SPEAKER_05: Would you? 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:29.440 SPEAKER_17: Director Rose, go ahead. 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:33.440 SPEAKER_05: No, I think we've given a lot of feedback for the staff to consider. 00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:38.440 SPEAKER_17: Maybe if we just continue this either to the next special committee, the next special board 00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:42.840 SPEAKER_17: meeting or just the next board meeting, right, staff can go and hear our feedback and look 00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:49.440 SPEAKER_17: at the, give us some options that we might find a little more palatable. 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.840 SPEAKER_17: And maybe that is putting money into the existing contract. 00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:56.840 SPEAKER_17: Maybe that's taking a harder look at the process that everybody just went through. 00:58:56.840 --> 00:59:02.640 SPEAKER_17: And I want to thank you all for coming out as well, right, and trying to be respectful 00:59:02.640 --> 00:59:05.640 SPEAKER_17: of all the work that went into the work that's happened this far. 00:59:05.640 --> 00:59:08.640 SPEAKER_17: That would be sort of my current thought. 00:59:08.640 --> 00:59:11.640 Unknown: Director Buie, Thompson. 00:59:11.639 --> 00:59:19.440 Unknown: Yeah, I would support that because I think that legally we have a position, right? 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:24.339 SPEAKER_03: It's none of the bidders have won or under any sanctions in the state of California. 00:59:24.339 --> 00:59:28.920 SPEAKER_03: They all have valid licenses from a procedural. 00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:37.039 SPEAKER_03: We don't, you know, as a boarder, we don't have any contractual or, you know, that's 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:38.039 SPEAKER_03: been violated. 00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:39.879 SPEAKER_03: The process has been followed. 00:59:39.879 --> 00:59:41.319 SPEAKER_03: So there's that. 00:59:41.320 --> 00:59:45.080 SPEAKER_03: But I think that there's been enough discussion this evening. 00:59:45.080 --> 00:59:50.880 SPEAKER_03: You've heard from all of us and most of us in sort of some concern. 00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:57.600 SPEAKER_03: Since we still have a little money left, we have several bidders that are in the pool, 00:59:57.600 --> 01:00:02.160 SPEAKER_03: except I believe the Verkems, right, in the current mix. 01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:07.640 SPEAKER_03: I would suggest that, you know, we push it, get some more information because there was 01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:10.319 SPEAKER_03: a very diligent also RFP process. 01:00:10.319 --> 01:00:12.679 SPEAKER_03: It started in December of last year. 01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:13.679 SPEAKER_03: We're in August. 01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:20.119 SPEAKER_03: And so it would be good to have a discussion with what can be done, what flexibility we 01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:24.519 SPEAKER_03: have because even if you, just Greg, if you know, if you took the top three, they're all 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:25.519 Unknown: nonunion bidders. 01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:31.799 SPEAKER_03: So all the top companies that were successful in the top five, I believe, are none of them 01:00:31.799 --> 01:00:32.799 SPEAKER_03: are union. 01:00:32.799 --> 01:00:34.639 SPEAKER_03: So you'd have to extend it a lot longer. 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:38.519 SPEAKER_03: So I think there's just some conversations that and some more information. 01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:43.159 SPEAKER_03: I think there's been a lot of, I don't want to say misinformation, but just lack of true 01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:47.000 SPEAKER_03: understanding of how we got here. 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:52.239 SPEAKER_03: It would be good just to clear up everybody's concerns, questions, push it out a month or 01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:54.599 SPEAKER_03: two. 01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:57.879 SPEAKER_03: If you need, I guess it'd be good to know how dire are we. 01:00:57.879 --> 01:01:01.960 SPEAKER_03: Are we running out September 6th? 01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.639 SPEAKER_03: That would help in terms of knowing how far we can push this out. 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:09.240 SPEAKER_03: If it's tomorrow, we're going to run out and that's something else. 01:01:09.240 --> 01:01:16.960 SPEAKER_03: But if this can wait till September or October's board meeting with the current financial state, 01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:21.159 SPEAKER_03: and if we do have to have an emergency push, we would just need to know. 01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:23.159 Unknown: Director Kirk. 01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:26.639 SPEAKER_04: Did you want to? 01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:33.879 Unknown: Well, I hadn't thought up anything to say yet, but I'd be happy to say no. 01:01:33.879 --> 01:01:35.920 SPEAKER_04: I don't have anything to say. 01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:39.519 SPEAKER_09: Those words will never come out of my mouth. 01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:46.279 SPEAKER_09: But of course, I'd be happy to see this continue to month, take it up at our next board meeting 01:01:46.279 --> 01:01:49.719 SPEAKER_09: or the board meeting after that to have our questions answered. 01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:50.879 Unknown: Thanks. 01:01:50.879 --> 01:01:55.279 SPEAKER_04: Director Herper. 01:01:55.280 --> 01:02:03.480 SPEAKER_11: I'd like to see us delay this for a month and get questions answered and have more comfortability 01:02:03.480 --> 01:02:06.480 SPEAKER_11: with making this decision. 01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:07.480 SPEAKER_04: Director Sanborn. 01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:12.680 Unknown: I would like to hear from staff about where would this leave us and what kind of issues 01:02:12.680 --> 01:02:16.640 SPEAKER_18: would we have if we kick this down a month? 01:02:16.640 --> 01:02:19.720 SPEAKER_15: I think what I heard from Lauren, the Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer, what 01:02:19.719 --> 01:02:25.480 SPEAKER_15: I heard from Eric is that we could defer this for a month, give staff time to bring 01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:32.599 SPEAKER_15: back options, and we would not have an impact on the work at that point, would not have 01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:35.079 SPEAKER_15: an impact on the work if we delay until September meeting. 01:02:35.079 --> 01:02:36.079 SPEAKER_18: Okay. 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:41.519 SPEAKER_18: Well, with that, I would be fine delaying it a month and making sure my colleagues are 01:02:41.519 --> 01:02:42.559 SPEAKER_18: comfortable. 01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:50.360 SPEAKER_18: I'm fairly comfortable right now just because of it looks like the number three group was 01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:52.320 SPEAKER_18: significantly more expensive. 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:57.639 SPEAKER_18: So for me, that's when we're trying to keep rates down. 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:02.519 SPEAKER_18: But there are issues and it would be better to have more time if we have it to give breathing 01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:04.079 SPEAKER_18: space and some thought. 01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:08.159 SPEAKER_18: So that's where I will go ahead and support that for one month. 01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:12.400 SPEAKER_15: Perhaps then we could get a motion to postpone until September board meeting? 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:13.400 Unknown: I'd like... 01:03:13.400 --> 01:03:18.160 Unknown: I'll move that we go ahead and move this to the next board meeting. 01:03:18.160 --> 01:03:20.840 SPEAKER_11: You were the one that wanted to. 01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:23.119 SPEAKER_11: I'll second that. 01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:25.119 Unknown: Okay. 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:29.039 SPEAKER_04: So I want to have a little bit more... 01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:33.200 SPEAKER_04: Well, I want to add my comments if nobody else has comments. 01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:47.919 SPEAKER_04: So what I'd like to have is staff come back with some options or ideas for us to consider 01:03:47.919 --> 01:03:51.639 SPEAKER_04: at a committee meeting so we can have a more robust... 01:03:51.639 --> 01:04:00.119 SPEAKER_04: And I'm hoping there's enough time maybe a committee meeting the week of the board meeting. 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:06.679 SPEAKER_04: What I'm particularly interested in is, is there a way that we can accommodate... 01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:14.839 SPEAKER_04: Because a number of us are clearly concerned about this not being under a CWA or having 01:04:14.839 --> 01:04:17.679 SPEAKER_04: CWA type provisions in it. 01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:26.359 SPEAKER_04: And I'd like to see if there's some sort of options that can be somehow included in all 01:04:26.359 --> 01:04:27.400 SPEAKER_04: of this. 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:30.320 SPEAKER_04: And then also, in case there's... 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:37.079 SPEAKER_04: It'd be great if we could agendize for the next board meeting an extension of the... 01:04:37.079 --> 01:04:46.880 SPEAKER_04: Or addition of money to the existing contract in case we're unable to resolve this particular 01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:50.800 SPEAKER_04: contract issue next month. 01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:56.160 SPEAKER_04: I don't imagine it's going to take forever, but if there's still something sticky, it'd 01:04:56.159 --> 01:05:04.159 SPEAKER_04: be great to have that on the agenda and we can not do it if we don't need to add money 01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:06.039 SPEAKER_04: to the existing contract. 01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:08.239 SPEAKER_04: So does that work? 01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:09.239 SPEAKER_04: How does that sound? 01:05:09.239 --> 01:05:11.920 Unknown: Yes, I do believe that would work. 01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:12.920 Unknown: Okay. 01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:17.480 SPEAKER_15: I think, yeah, for clarification, the issue before the board is going to be we did run 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:25.000 SPEAKER_15: an RFP process and we have qualified two. 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:30.159 SPEAKER_15: And I think the decision before the board would be whether or not the board decides 01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:31.440 SPEAKER_15: to award that contract. 01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:33.039 SPEAKER_15: We're not required to award it. 01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:37.199 Unknown: That would be the decision before the board, but we can certainly come back with additional 01:05:37.199 --> 01:05:43.760 SPEAKER_15: information and look at extending the existing contract and how we go about doing that and 01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:46.240 SPEAKER_15: even adding money to that as well. 01:05:46.479 --> 01:05:47.479 Unknown: Yeah. 01:05:47.479 --> 01:05:53.439 SPEAKER_04: Do you think that a month is enough time for you to look at those types of options or? 01:05:53.439 --> 01:05:58.839 SPEAKER_15: I think we would need to come back in a month just so we don't run out of money. 01:05:58.839 --> 01:06:00.519 SPEAKER_15: We need to do the work. 01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:02.839 SPEAKER_15: So that should be enough time, yes. 01:06:02.839 --> 01:06:05.439 SPEAKER_15: And certainly we would bring it to committee first. 01:06:05.439 --> 01:06:06.439 SPEAKER_15: Okay. 01:06:06.439 --> 01:06:07.439 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:06:07.439 --> 01:06:08.439 Unknown: So. 01:06:08.439 --> 01:06:15.639 SPEAKER_04: President Tamayo, can I just say, looking at our work plan, right, I would love to see 01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:20.199 SPEAKER_17: right now we're scheduled for finance and audit September 15th, which is just two days 01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:21.199 SPEAKER_17: before the board meeting. 01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:25.920 SPEAKER_17: So I'd love to see if we can potentially have this discussion the week before and push this 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:29.239 SPEAKER_17: on to the policy strategic directive committee discussion. 01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:34.400 SPEAKER_17: So that way if we have more direction, staff will have that week to work on it. 01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:35.400 SPEAKER_17: Does that seem reasonable? 01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:36.400 SPEAKER_04: Does that make sense? 01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:37.400 SPEAKER_04: Yeah. 01:06:37.400 --> 01:06:38.400 Unknown: Okay. 01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:41.400 Unknown: And that's doable. 01:06:41.400 --> 01:06:43.400 Unknown: Okay. 01:06:44.160 --> 01:06:46.160 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:06:46.160 --> 01:06:51.240 SPEAKER_04: So the motion is to just continue this to next. 01:06:51.240 --> 01:06:54.400 SPEAKER_04: Is that something we actually need a motion for? 01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:59.400 Unknown: Okay. 01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:04.400 SPEAKER_04: So we've got a motion to continue this to our next board meeting. 01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:09.440 Unknown: So it would just be a vote at this point. 01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:10.440 SPEAKER_04: You know what? 01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:11.440 SPEAKER_04: I'm having trouble hearing you. 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:14.639 SPEAKER_04: I believe there was a motion and a second already. 01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:16.639 SPEAKER_15: So it would just be a vote at this point. 01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:17.639 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:19.639 SPEAKER_15: To postpone this until September. 01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:20.639 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:24.320 SPEAKER_04: And could you just read the motion then? 01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:33.679 SPEAKER_15: The motion would be to postpone discussion of this calendar, discussion 8 to September. 01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:34.679 SPEAKER_15: That's the motion. 01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:35.679 Unknown: Okay. 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:40.440 SPEAKER_04: And can we just use the, we don't need to do a roll call, right? 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:41.440 SPEAKER_04: No. 01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:42.440 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:43.440 SPEAKER_04: So you guys all know the blunt. 01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:47.440 SPEAKER_04: So directors, please vote. 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:51.440 SPEAKER_15: The motion passes with all directors voting yes. 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:54.720 Unknown: Well, thank you very much. 01:07:54.720 --> 01:07:56.679 SPEAKER_04: Thanks to the staff for putting all the work into this. 01:07:56.679 --> 01:08:00.159 SPEAKER_04: I know that, you know, anyway. 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:03.000 SPEAKER_04: And thanks for all the work that you're going to do over the next month. 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:06.840 SPEAKER_04: I realize that's some complicated issues. 01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:08.320 SPEAKER_04: So thank you very much. 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:09.679 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:08:09.679 --> 01:08:14.279 SPEAKER_04: So all right. 01:08:14.279 --> 01:08:22.239 SPEAKER_04: So we've moved on to our next agenda item, which is public comment on items not on the 01:08:22.239 --> 01:08:23.239 SPEAKER_04: agenda. 01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:30.519 SPEAKER_04: And we have two folks that have requested to speak on items not on the agenda. 01:08:30.519 --> 01:08:35.039 SPEAKER_04: The first is LaCharles James. 01:08:35.039 --> 01:08:36.439 SPEAKER_04: Please come up to the mic. 01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:39.000 Unknown: And you've got three minutes. 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:40.000 Unknown: Great. 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.000 SPEAKER_10: My name is LaCharles James. 01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:45.680 SPEAKER_10: I'm president of the Herald Fire Prevention Council. 01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:47.159 SPEAKER_10: Good evening. 01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:51.720 SPEAKER_10: Good evening, leadership, board. 01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:58.039 SPEAKER_10: I'm here on behalf of the rural community to raise a critical groundwater concern that 01:08:58.039 --> 01:09:03.359 SPEAKER_10: has been quietly compounding beneath our feet for years. 01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:11.319 SPEAKER_10: All Sacramento County accumulated eucalyptus debris, unregulated stormwater runoff, and 01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:20.239 SPEAKER_10: land applied treated bio waste containing microplastics and persistent solids are steadily 01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:25.000 SPEAKER_10: percolating into our shared aquifer. 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:29.719 SPEAKER_10: This is not a distant hypothetical hazard. 01:09:29.720 --> 01:09:37.119 SPEAKER_10: It's an active long-term contamination pathway that threatens the water security and health 01:09:37.119 --> 01:09:39.500 SPEAKER_10: of our region right now. 01:09:39.500 --> 01:09:44.960 SPEAKER_10: At its core, this is a bio waste and fuel management crisis. 01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:51.159 SPEAKER_10: And SMUD is uniquely positioned to help lead the solution. 01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:57.600 SPEAKER_10: Pyrolysis is a proven, scalable thermal conversion technology. 01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:04.920 SPEAKER_10: Unlike traditional disposal methods, advanced pyrolysis eliminates organic waste, permanently 01:10:04.920 --> 01:10:12.700 SPEAKER_10: destroys embedded plastics, significantly reduces hazards, wildfire fuel loads, and produces 01:10:12.700 --> 01:10:21.840 SPEAKER_10: high value byproducts, firm, dispatchable, clean energy, and carbon sequestering soil 01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:24.920 SPEAKER_10: restoring biochar. 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:29.039 SPEAKER_10: The regional feedstock is virtually unlimited. 01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:35.520 SPEAKER_10: We have a convergence of resources waiting for collaborative leadership. 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:46.560 Unknown: SMUD's land and infrastructure assets, strategic, regional, land and grid interconnection capacity, 01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:55.240 SPEAKER_10: strategic funding, robust financing opportunities through the California Energy Commission for 01:10:55.240 --> 01:11:07.200 SPEAKER_10: clean tech innovation, wildfire resistance mandate from CAL FIRE, high priority statewide 01:11:07.200 --> 01:11:14.440 SPEAKER_10: mission to accelerate biomass utilization and fuel load reduction. 01:11:14.479 --> 01:11:22.439 SPEAKER_10: I'm asking SMUD tonight to initiate a formal conversation and partner with local fire councils 01:11:22.439 --> 01:11:29.319 SPEAKER_10: and regional stakeholders to explore a commercial scale pyrolysis solution. 01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:38.679 SPEAKER_10: Acting now protects our groundwater aquifer, satisfies state environmental mandates, and 01:11:38.680 --> 01:11:48.600 SPEAKER_10: returns what is currently a hazardous liability into a resilient clean energy asset for our 01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:51.200 SPEAKER_10: entire community. 01:11:51.200 --> 01:11:52.200 SPEAKER_10: Thank you. 01:11:52.200 --> 01:11:53.200 SPEAKER_10: Thank you for your leadership. 01:11:53.200 --> 01:11:55.200 Unknown: Thank you, Mr. James. 01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:56.200 SPEAKER_04: Any questions? 01:11:56.200 --> 01:11:58.200 SPEAKER_04: Anybody have any questions? 01:11:58.200 --> 01:12:02.680 Unknown: Director Sanborn and then Director Herb. 01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:03.680 SPEAKER_18: Thank you. 01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:05.400 SPEAKER_18: I appreciate you coming tonight. 01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:11.479 SPEAKER_18: I work in the waste management industry by day and pyrolysis is a well-known technology. 01:12:11.479 --> 01:12:13.079 SPEAKER_18: Are you proposing a project? 01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:14.079 SPEAKER_10: Yes. 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:16.359 SPEAKER_18: So you've got a project that you're proposing. 01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:20.000 SPEAKER_18: I'm sorry, we can't talk about this. 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:24.319 SPEAKER_18: I guess you sent us information so we can get more information from you. 01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:25.559 SPEAKER_10: I can leave you this. 01:12:25.559 --> 01:12:31.239 SPEAKER_10: I have an extended briefing for your record, maybe. 01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:32.239 SPEAKER_10: We can meet later on. 01:12:32.599 --> 01:12:35.960 SPEAKER_18: We'll just need more information, I think, to do anything with what you've said. 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:36.960 SPEAKER_18: But I'm very interested. 01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:37.960 SPEAKER_18: Okay. 01:12:37.960 --> 01:12:38.960 SPEAKER_18: All right. 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:39.960 Unknown: Thank you. 01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:41.460 Unknown: Director Herman. 01:12:41.460 --> 01:12:43.359 SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Mr. President. 01:12:43.359 --> 01:12:48.239 SPEAKER_11: I just wanted to say thank you for coming in and talking to us. 01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:54.039 SPEAKER_11: I think you're right that we share the same concerns about the environment. 01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:58.239 SPEAKER_11: And if we can look at a project, then that would be good. 01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:01.439 SPEAKER_11: But that's something for staff to decide. 01:13:01.439 --> 01:13:02.960 SPEAKER_11: But thank you for visiting us. 01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:03.960 SPEAKER_11: You're welcome. 01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:04.960 Unknown: Great. 01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:05.960 Unknown: Thank you. 01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:12.839 SPEAKER_04: And I'm guessing that our CEO may direct staff to look at the information that you 01:13:12.839 --> 01:13:13.839 SPEAKER_04: have. 01:13:13.839 --> 01:13:17.199 SPEAKER_04: I'll leave it to you, Laura. 01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:20.519 SPEAKER_04: So we'll get the information from you. 01:13:20.519 --> 01:13:21.519 SPEAKER_02: Thank you. 01:13:21.519 --> 01:13:22.519 SPEAKER_02: Okay. 01:13:22.519 --> 01:13:23.519 SPEAKER_04: Thank you. 01:13:23.519 --> 01:13:24.519 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Mr. James. 01:13:24.519 --> 01:13:25.519 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:13:25.519 --> 01:13:26.519 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:13:26.519 --> 01:13:31.319 SPEAKER_04: Our next speaker is Scott Sliderbeck. 01:13:32.319 --> 01:13:37.119 SPEAKER_08: First of all, I wanted to say the comment about elections being frivolous. 01:13:37.119 --> 01:13:42.359 SPEAKER_08: I know it wasn't meant to denigrate the electoral process. 01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:50.159 SPEAKER_08: But I just want to make it clear that I like the board to actually justify its existence 01:13:50.159 --> 01:13:58.479 SPEAKER_08: when you're asking for people to nominate and have you serve another four-year term. 01:13:58.479 --> 01:14:02.639 SPEAKER_08: It's not a frivolous process, in my opinion. 01:14:02.639 --> 01:14:07.679 SPEAKER_08: I am going through – unfortunately, I can't come to every board meeting or every committee 01:14:07.679 --> 01:14:13.359 SPEAKER_08: meeting because I work until sunset most days. 01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:15.799 SPEAKER_08: But I am interested in this item. 01:14:15.799 --> 01:14:19.319 SPEAKER_08: Unfortunately, I didn't fill out the form. 01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:27.759 SPEAKER_08: But this grant proposal with the canopy and having a solar facility. 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:30.840 SPEAKER_08: I certainly think that's an excellent idea. 01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:40.119 SPEAKER_08: I prefer it using existing infrastructure that is not agricultural, doesn't kill birds, 01:14:40.119 --> 01:14:46.640 SPEAKER_08: doesn't destroy 3,500 or 4,000 mature oak trees. 01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:49.720 SPEAKER_08: I'd like to see more of that from SMUD. 01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:51.920 SPEAKER_08: I don't know the cost. 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:59.560 SPEAKER_08: It might be easier to chop down 4,000 oak trees and put a large-scale multi-megawatt 01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:00.960 SPEAKER_08: facility in. 01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:09.159 SPEAKER_08: But I certainly think it's much more preferable for an environmental standpoint to take existing 01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:17.640 SPEAKER_08: urban environments that are not going to disrupt the environment to that extent. 01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:23.000 SPEAKER_08: The last thing I wanted to mention is the reason I filled out the card is incentives 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:26.119 SPEAKER_08: were mentioned in the meeting. 01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:29.039 SPEAKER_08: I am doing a room addition on my house. 01:15:29.039 --> 01:15:33.600 SPEAKER_08: And I went through – it just seemed to take a little bit longer than it should for me 01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:41.240 SPEAKER_08: to see what incentives are out there for building projects, residential especially. 01:15:41.240 --> 01:15:44.039 SPEAKER_08: That's what I'm concerned about. 01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:45.760 SPEAKER_08: I have a whole house fan. 01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:51.480 SPEAKER_08: I put a whole house fan in my first house I bought many years ago, and I made it a 01:15:51.480 --> 01:15:56.360 SPEAKER_08: rule that I will never live in a house in Sacramento without a whole house fan. 01:15:56.360 --> 01:16:00.520 SPEAKER_08: I don't have to use the air conditioner at night. 01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:05.159 SPEAKER_08: We are fortunate in Sacramento to have the marine influence. 01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:11.360 SPEAKER_08: And even if it's 105 degrees during the day, it'll cool down most times into the upper 01:16:11.360 --> 01:16:13.280 SPEAKER_08: 50s, low 60s. 01:16:13.279 --> 01:16:18.159 SPEAKER_08: And you just turn that whole house fan on, go to sleep, and it's just such an energy 01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:19.159 SPEAKER_08: saver. 01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:23.119 SPEAKER_08: I'd like to have it a little bit easier for people to see these incentives. 01:16:23.119 --> 01:16:28.479 SPEAKER_08: I'd like to see incentives for whole house fans because surprisingly not everybody has 01:16:28.479 --> 01:16:29.479 SPEAKER_08: one. 01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:34.039 Unknown: Thank you, Mr. Slatterbeck. 01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:41.000 SPEAKER_04: And thank you for calling out my poor choice of words and describing an election as frivolous. 01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:48.119 SPEAKER_04: There's reasons not to have it, and it certainly wouldn't be a frivolous act. 01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:50.560 SPEAKER_04: But thank you for calling out that poor choice of words. 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:57.279 SPEAKER_04: But I am glad that we have an option to save our rate payers money from having a ballot 01:16:57.279 --> 01:17:03.119 SPEAKER_04: with one name on the ‑‑ for a position. 01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:05.680 SPEAKER_04: So anyway, thank you for coming. 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:07.640 Unknown: All right. 01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:13.360 SPEAKER_04: So at this point, we are moving on to our director's report. 01:17:13.360 --> 01:17:15.440 SPEAKER_04: President DeMio, I'm sorry. 01:17:15.440 --> 01:17:20.079 SPEAKER_15: We do have a virtual speaker, John, as is Andres. 01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:21.079 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:22.079 SPEAKER_04: Excuse me. 01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:23.079 SPEAKER_04: Go ahead. 01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:25.400 Unknown: Hi, this is John Weber. 01:17:25.400 --> 01:17:27.400 SPEAKER_13: Can you hear me? 01:17:27.400 --> 01:17:28.760 Unknown: Hello? 01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:31.920 SPEAKER_13: We can hear you, John. 01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:32.920 Unknown: All right. 01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:33.920 SPEAKER_13: Thank you. 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:38.279 SPEAKER_13: I just wanted to say good evening, Chair and board of directors. 01:17:38.279 --> 01:17:40.119 SPEAKER_13: Thanks for all your work. 01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:45.760 SPEAKER_13: You have a lot of tough decisions to make, and it sounds like you're making them in a 01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:47.640 SPEAKER_13: very thoughtful manner. 01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:49.199 SPEAKER_13: And I appreciate that. 01:17:49.199 --> 01:17:56.560 SPEAKER_13: I submitted detailed written comments about another issue, but for this month, I want 01:17:56.560 --> 01:18:02.260 SPEAKER_13: to give a shout out to a SMUD employee, Jack Haglund. 01:18:02.260 --> 01:18:05.420 SPEAKER_13: He works with the distributed energy solutions. 01:18:05.420 --> 01:18:10.340 SPEAKER_13: He's done a great job of keeping me informed of what SMUD is doing. 01:18:10.340 --> 01:18:12.340 SPEAKER_13: And have a good evening. 01:18:12.340 --> 01:18:14.579 Unknown: All right. 01:18:14.579 --> 01:18:18.260 Unknown: Thank you, John. 01:18:18.260 --> 01:18:19.260 SPEAKER_04: All right. 01:18:19.260 --> 01:18:22.220 SPEAKER_04: So any other virtual comment requested? 01:18:22.220 --> 01:18:25.460 Unknown: No, I don't see any hands. 01:18:25.460 --> 01:18:26.460 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 01:18:26.460 --> 01:18:31.340 SPEAKER_04: So at this point in the agenda, we provide the directors an opportunity to report on 01:18:31.340 --> 01:18:32.980 SPEAKER_04: SMUD activity. 01:18:32.980 --> 01:18:38.819 SPEAKER_04: We'll begin our report with the report from Director Rose in ward one and continue in 01:18:38.819 --> 01:18:42.500 SPEAKER_04: ward order with the President's report as the final item. 01:18:42.500 --> 01:18:44.100 SPEAKER_04: Go ahead, Director Rose. 01:18:44.100 --> 01:18:45.420 Unknown: All right. 01:18:45.420 --> 01:18:49.659 SPEAKER_17: I have just a short report, just a couple things to report on. 01:18:49.659 --> 01:18:56.819 SPEAKER_17: I got out to the Citrus Heights Chamber of Commerce luncheon and had an opportunity to 01:18:56.819 --> 01:18:59.299 SPEAKER_17: give some introductory remarks. 01:18:59.299 --> 01:19:05.859 SPEAKER_17: Lisa Cardoza, who's the president of American River College, was the keynote for the day. 01:19:05.859 --> 01:19:10.179 SPEAKER_17: Did SMUD a good service talking about our partnerships with them, especially around 01:19:10.179 --> 01:19:14.859 SPEAKER_17: their culinary education and our induction work there. 01:19:14.859 --> 01:19:21.579 SPEAKER_17: Had an opportunity to stop by the Sacramento Business Journal Corporate Citizenship Awards. 01:19:21.579 --> 01:19:26.460 SPEAKER_17: And so had some good conversations with some sort of like-minded organizations in the community 01:19:26.460 --> 01:19:27.460 SPEAKER_17: at that. 01:19:27.460 --> 01:19:30.980 SPEAKER_17: And then the last one I would mention is, and I know many of us on the board got out 01:19:30.980 --> 01:19:35.380 SPEAKER_17: there, out to the California State Fair for our Giving Friday at the fair. 01:19:35.380 --> 01:19:40.980 SPEAKER_17: And that's always a lot of fun, collecting cans from folks and being with the staff, 01:19:40.980 --> 01:19:45.180 SPEAKER_17: handing out bags and talking energy with the public. 01:19:45.180 --> 01:19:49.260 SPEAKER_17: And I was on the stop-back by later that evening and help support Director Kurth. 01:19:49.260 --> 01:19:53.659 SPEAKER_17: He gave a few comments later in the evening and a cooking demo that I'm sure he will talk 01:19:53.659 --> 01:19:54.659 SPEAKER_17: about in more detail. 01:19:54.859 --> 01:19:56.619 SPEAKER_17: And with that, that concludes my report. 01:19:56.619 --> 01:19:57.619 SPEAKER_17: Thanks. 01:20:00.460 --> 01:20:01.460 Unknown: Thank you. 01:20:01.460 --> 01:20:06.180 SPEAKER_03: I also attended several events, but I will just cover a few. 01:20:06.180 --> 01:20:13.380 SPEAKER_03: I attended a national summit for elected Asian American Pacific Islander elected officials 01:20:13.380 --> 01:20:15.380 SPEAKER_03: across the country. 01:20:15.380 --> 01:20:20.139 SPEAKER_03: It's a rare occurrence to bring elected officials from across the country. 01:20:20.140 --> 01:20:22.260 SPEAKER_03: It's a nonpartisan group. 01:20:22.260 --> 01:20:31.980 SPEAKER_03: And we discussed various issues of economic stability, environmental justice, how to engage 01:20:31.980 --> 01:20:35.740 SPEAKER_03: the public during these tough times. 01:20:35.740 --> 01:20:39.660 SPEAKER_03: We it was a quick summit for a week, but about to get some great connections. 01:20:39.660 --> 01:20:46.539 SPEAKER_03: Actually ran into several of our electives that we work with with our CCA in Silicon 01:20:46.539 --> 01:20:47.539 SPEAKER_03: Valley. 01:20:47.539 --> 01:20:52.859 SPEAKER_03: We had to connect with them and talk about all of SMUD's great work in our CCA's across 01:20:52.859 --> 01:20:53.859 SPEAKER_03: California. 01:20:53.859 --> 01:21:00.460 SPEAKER_03: I also visited, I represent Harold Galt in the south part of the district in my ward. 01:21:00.460 --> 01:21:06.460 SPEAKER_03: And I, in present to my eye, went to go look at where potential Twin Cities project, our 01:21:06.460 --> 01:21:07.460 SPEAKER_03: solar and storage. 01:21:07.460 --> 01:21:10.619 SPEAKER_03: We had several people from the community write and show concern. 01:21:10.619 --> 01:21:12.619 SPEAKER_03: So I've been out there several times. 01:21:12.619 --> 01:21:17.300 SPEAKER_03: I cycle, spend time out at the lake. 01:21:18.060 --> 01:21:22.619 SPEAKER_03: I didn't get to actually previously get, you know, dive in deep to that area. 01:21:22.619 --> 01:21:25.260 SPEAKER_03: I just drive by as a recreationalist. 01:21:25.260 --> 01:21:31.340 SPEAKER_03: And so it was good to see where our potential project could be or would be and what impacts 01:21:31.340 --> 01:21:36.100 SPEAKER_03: if at all to that neighborhood in terms of glare, road issues. 01:21:36.100 --> 01:21:43.260 SPEAKER_03: And so it was nice to be on the ground to see what potential, if any, impacts that project. 01:21:43.500 --> 01:21:48.460 SPEAKER_03: Because I understand great concern was over that project and we're spending some time 01:21:48.460 --> 01:21:51.100 SPEAKER_03: to see what options are out there. 01:21:51.100 --> 01:21:57.100 SPEAKER_03: So that is it for me in terms of notable items from the last period. 01:21:59.619 --> 01:22:01.980 SPEAKER_05: I think I'm next. 01:22:01.980 --> 01:22:06.940 SPEAKER_05: First of all, I want to take note that while we've had some significant retirements recently 01:22:06.940 --> 01:22:10.460 SPEAKER_05: among our leadership, someone else is retiring. 01:22:10.460 --> 01:22:12.820 SPEAKER_05: This is her last board meeting tonight. 01:22:12.819 --> 01:22:18.899 SPEAKER_05: Claire Rogers, our auditor, has been with the company for 34 years and spent the last 01:22:18.899 --> 01:22:22.539 SPEAKER_05: several years as the director of audit services. 01:22:22.539 --> 01:22:26.699 SPEAKER_05: And that's more than just financial auditing, which is, of course, very, very important 01:22:26.699 --> 01:22:27.699 SPEAKER_05: to us. 01:22:27.699 --> 01:22:30.899 SPEAKER_05: But we also have an outside firm that does our financial audits for us. 01:22:30.899 --> 01:22:35.299 SPEAKER_05: But Claire's team helps keep us on the straight and narrow in a lot of other ways, making 01:22:35.299 --> 01:22:39.420 SPEAKER_05: sure that our programs are being run effectively, make sure that we're compliant with a lot 01:22:39.420 --> 01:22:41.500 SPEAKER_05: of different regulations. 01:22:42.260 --> 01:22:49.260 SPEAKER_05: As a SMUD board member, it is a great, great relief to know that someone with Claire's 01:22:49.260 --> 01:22:55.020 SPEAKER_05: acumen and abilities and knowledge has been there making sure that we're doing the right 01:22:55.020 --> 01:23:00.060 SPEAKER_05: thing and it allows us as a board to look forward instead of look behind us to say, 01:23:00.060 --> 01:23:02.699 SPEAKER_05: what's coming up to bite me? 01:23:02.699 --> 01:23:04.340 SPEAKER_05: And Claire, we're going to miss you. 01:23:04.340 --> 01:23:08.180 SPEAKER_05: We've made a great internal hire and we're looking forward to her service. 01:23:08.180 --> 01:23:10.020 SPEAKER_05: But we're going to miss you, Claire. 01:23:10.020 --> 01:23:13.060 SPEAKER_05: And I'll see you around the neighborhood because we live in the same neighborhood. 01:23:13.060 --> 01:23:20.220 SPEAKER_05: So congratulations on a great, great career and hope you enjoy your retirement. 01:23:20.220 --> 01:23:25.260 SPEAKER_05: A couple of other things I did was also at the State Fair for a Giving Friday, collecting 01:23:25.260 --> 01:23:29.980 SPEAKER_05: canned goods for the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, a great organization 01:23:29.980 --> 01:23:30.980 SPEAKER_05: there. 01:23:30.980 --> 01:23:37.500 SPEAKER_05: A couple of things that I really enjoyed celebrating African American heritage in Sacramento. 01:23:37.500 --> 01:23:42.460 SPEAKER_05: One, the Black Cowboys Parade in late July. 01:23:42.460 --> 01:23:50.220 SPEAKER_05: Just a really fun event and celebrating the history of the Black Cowboys in the West. 01:23:50.220 --> 01:23:54.899 SPEAKER_05: Something that we don't hear about a lot, but they played a significant role in that 01:23:54.899 --> 01:23:56.779 SPEAKER_05: part of our history. 01:23:56.779 --> 01:24:02.579 SPEAKER_05: And then also the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum had their 15th annual Banana 01:24:02.579 --> 01:24:06.739 SPEAKER_05: Festival last weekend in Land Park. 01:24:06.739 --> 01:24:08.300 SPEAKER_05: And that was also a lot of fun. 01:24:08.300 --> 01:24:13.939 SPEAKER_05: I went to a National Night Out celebration in my ward at Vintage Park for the Vineyard 01:24:13.939 --> 01:24:16.699 SPEAKER_05: and Vintage Park neighborhoods. 01:24:16.699 --> 01:24:21.579 SPEAKER_05: Their first event, but they had a good turnout and it was a lot of fun. 01:24:21.579 --> 01:24:28.460 SPEAKER_05: I got to say a few words and attend the ribbon cutting for an e-mobility hub at Hiram Johnson 01:24:28.460 --> 01:24:29.460 SPEAKER_05: High School. 01:24:29.460 --> 01:24:32.939 SPEAKER_05: It's actually in President Tomayo's ward, but it's close enough to mine so that I think 01:24:32.939 --> 01:24:35.859 SPEAKER_05: you were unavailable, Nate, and I got to go do it. 01:24:35.859 --> 01:24:43.979 SPEAKER_05: We worked with a school and another company to install two charging hubs for e-mobility 01:24:43.979 --> 01:24:48.739 SPEAKER_05: devices for bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters. 01:24:48.739 --> 01:24:49.899 SPEAKER_05: And they're separate from the grid. 01:24:49.899 --> 01:24:52.659 SPEAKER_05: They're not, so it's a very low cost solution. 01:24:52.659 --> 01:24:57.460 SPEAKER_05: They're all solar powered and battery driven and a place for kids to plug in their e-bikes 01:24:57.460 --> 01:24:58.979 SPEAKER_05: and e-scooters. 01:24:58.979 --> 01:25:03.299 SPEAKER_05: And while to qualify to be able to do that, they have to have a helmet. 01:25:03.299 --> 01:25:04.299 SPEAKER_05: They have to have safety gear. 01:25:04.340 --> 01:25:08.860 SPEAKER_05: They have to have a little bit of training, so it's a way to hopefully keep those students 01:25:08.860 --> 01:25:10.420 SPEAKER_05: safe as well. 01:25:10.420 --> 01:25:17.020 SPEAKER_05: And then finally, President Tomayo and I also got to both say a few words at the Iranian 01:25:17.020 --> 01:25:22.340 SPEAKER_05: American Cultural and Educational Center Business Leadership, GALA, last weekend. 01:25:22.340 --> 01:25:24.460 SPEAKER_05: And that's just a great fun event. 01:25:24.460 --> 01:25:30.699 SPEAKER_05: And as I mentioned at one of our committee meetings earlier this week, many of those 01:25:30.699 --> 01:25:36.659 SPEAKER_05: folks have families still under all kinds of duress and threat in their home countries. 01:25:36.659 --> 01:25:41.579 SPEAKER_05: And it's a difficult time for them, but they put on a beautiful event and still managed 01:25:41.579 --> 01:25:45.659 SPEAKER_05: to find things to celebrate and celebrate the American dream as part of that. 01:25:45.659 --> 01:25:46.659 SPEAKER_05: So it was a fun event. 01:25:46.659 --> 01:25:47.659 Unknown: I'll stop there. 01:25:47.659 --> 01:25:48.659 Unknown: Okay. 01:25:48.659 --> 01:26:00.539 Unknown: And now for me, a variety of things happened this month that were very interesting. 01:26:00.539 --> 01:26:10.260 SPEAKER_11: And I just want to give a shout out to Rhonda for putting on the SMUD Employee Remembrance 01:26:10.260 --> 01:26:12.340 SPEAKER_11: Event. 01:26:12.340 --> 01:26:16.260 SPEAKER_11: I was fortunate to be able to speak. 01:26:16.260 --> 01:26:21.939 SPEAKER_11: I worked 20 years here at SMUD, knew a lot of the folks and a lot of the folks that have 01:26:21.939 --> 01:26:23.699 SPEAKER_11: passed away. 01:26:23.699 --> 01:26:32.460 SPEAKER_11: So we were able to join together and remember the employees who have left us this year. 01:26:32.460 --> 01:26:40.019 SPEAKER_11: And there also were others who shared about employees who have gone before us. 01:26:40.019 --> 01:26:50.179 SPEAKER_11: I just want to say that I really miss you, Alan Wilcox and Mi Vu and Darren Schrum and 01:26:50.180 --> 01:26:54.860 SPEAKER_11: my buddies, wonderful SMUD employees. 01:26:54.860 --> 01:27:00.100 SPEAKER_11: And I think it's wonderful that we honor them every year. 01:27:00.100 --> 01:27:06.180 SPEAKER_11: Also have the privilege of speaking to the rainbow chamber of commerce and telling them 01:27:06.180 --> 01:27:16.300 SPEAKER_11: a little bit about the different contracts that they could potentially bid on. 01:27:16.300 --> 01:27:22.940 SPEAKER_11: Several of the businesses in the group have won contracts from SMUD. 01:27:22.940 --> 01:27:29.539 SPEAKER_11: And so it was a really nice luncheon just to bring people together and support each 01:27:29.539 --> 01:27:30.539 SPEAKER_11: other. 01:27:30.539 --> 01:27:37.860 SPEAKER_11: I also had the privilege of going out to Elk Grove for a special event that was put on 01:27:37.860 --> 01:27:40.699 SPEAKER_11: by a seat at the table. 01:27:40.699 --> 01:27:50.859 SPEAKER_11: A seat at the table is a bookstore, caters to LGBTQ folks, and they were unveiling a 01:27:50.859 --> 01:27:54.420 SPEAKER_11: sensory inclusive space. 01:27:54.420 --> 01:28:01.819 SPEAKER_11: And this is now the latest thing where there are rooms that are put together where people 01:28:01.819 --> 01:28:11.699 SPEAKER_11: can go and not be distracted by different things that impact their senses. 01:28:11.699 --> 01:28:17.819 SPEAKER_11: And it sounds a little odd until you're there and you see what they're doing. 01:28:17.819 --> 01:28:24.939 SPEAKER_11: And I know that SMUD is supporting a seat at the table in this effort. 01:28:24.939 --> 01:28:27.420 SPEAKER_11: And I think that's wonderful. 01:28:27.420 --> 01:28:33.819 SPEAKER_11: So had a great time at the American Leadership Forum. 01:28:33.819 --> 01:28:43.579 SPEAKER_11: Welcome reception to not only our new general manager, but the new CEO for Los Rios Community 01:28:43.579 --> 01:28:45.180 SPEAKER_11: College. 01:28:45.180 --> 01:28:47.819 SPEAKER_11: And that was a lot of fun. 01:28:47.819 --> 01:28:55.420 SPEAKER_11: One of the most important things I did this past month was to go with President Tamayo 01:28:55.420 --> 01:29:03.659 SPEAKER_11: and Director Kurth to meet with the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and to share 01:29:03.659 --> 01:29:13.020 SPEAKER_11: with them the land acknowledgment statement that we have been working on for many, many 01:29:13.020 --> 01:29:14.260 SPEAKER_11: years. 01:29:14.260 --> 01:29:17.940 SPEAKER_11: They were very welcoming. 01:29:17.939 --> 01:29:26.019 SPEAKER_11: They were willing to share with us all kinds of things that they have there. 01:29:26.019 --> 01:29:27.659 SPEAKER_11: We looked at baskets. 01:29:27.659 --> 01:29:33.259 SPEAKER_11: We looked at, you know, warriors, tools. 01:29:33.259 --> 01:29:40.419 SPEAKER_11: There was just a whole bunch of things that were displayed at their museum. 01:29:40.419 --> 01:29:45.859 SPEAKER_11: And so they were pretty happy with our statement. 01:29:45.859 --> 01:29:51.059 SPEAKER_11: They gave us some feedback that staff is now considering. 01:29:51.059 --> 01:30:01.420 SPEAKER_11: But I'm hoping to bring that forward to the policy meeting in October or November. 01:30:01.420 --> 01:30:07.420 SPEAKER_11: And then last but not least, I just want to give a little shout out to the intern I've 01:30:07.420 --> 01:30:09.539 SPEAKER_11: had for the last month. 01:30:09.539 --> 01:30:12.019 SPEAKER_11: Her name is Tiffany Elliott. 01:30:12.020 --> 01:30:21.620 SPEAKER_11: She is the class president at JFK, Kennedy School, others call it. 01:30:21.620 --> 01:30:30.300 SPEAKER_11: And she spent some time with our executive, Jose Bodipamemba, thank you, shared with her 01:30:30.300 --> 01:30:34.580 SPEAKER_11: the bigger overall picture of how SMUD works. 01:30:34.579 --> 01:30:42.420 SPEAKER_11: And then also I want to say thank you to Leroy in government affairs who shared with 01:30:42.420 --> 01:30:49.939 SPEAKER_11: her the local stuff that goes on with SMUD and the elected officials. 01:30:49.939 --> 01:30:57.819 SPEAKER_11: So with that, I will end. 01:30:57.819 --> 01:30:59.539 SPEAKER_18: Thank you, President Smil. 01:30:59.539 --> 01:31:00.539 SPEAKER_18: I'm going to keep it short. 01:31:00.539 --> 01:31:05.819 SPEAKER_18: I've had a busy month but it's mostly just average working stuff with SMUD. 01:31:05.819 --> 01:31:10.659 SPEAKER_18: I did go to the North State Building Industry Association for their chairman's circle lunch. 01:31:10.659 --> 01:31:13.420 SPEAKER_18: It was really nice to see all our friends in the building industry. 01:31:13.420 --> 01:31:14.979 SPEAKER_18: We worked very closely with them. 01:31:14.979 --> 01:31:16.659 SPEAKER_18: They're electrifying homes. 01:31:16.659 --> 01:31:19.460 SPEAKER_18: They're struggling to try and sell homes right now. 01:31:19.460 --> 01:31:21.300 SPEAKER_18: It's a really tough market. 01:31:21.300 --> 01:31:23.739 SPEAKER_18: And costs have gone up a lot of materials. 01:31:23.739 --> 01:31:26.019 SPEAKER_18: So that's a real struggle for them. 01:31:26.019 --> 01:31:29.859 SPEAKER_18: And we all need to work together to get more housing built in this region. 01:31:29.859 --> 01:31:31.679 SPEAKER_18: So I was glad to be there. 01:31:31.679 --> 01:31:35.339 SPEAKER_18: Also attended for the first time in about a year a group called the Lunch Bunch in North 01:31:35.339 --> 01:31:36.339 SPEAKER_18: Highlands. 01:31:36.339 --> 01:31:40.099 SPEAKER_18: And they meet at the Pancake Palace on Watt Avenue. 01:31:40.099 --> 01:31:43.380 SPEAKER_18: And it's very local and a lot of great people there are working to make their community 01:31:43.380 --> 01:31:44.380 SPEAKER_18: better. 01:31:44.380 --> 01:31:48.539 SPEAKER_18: And I encourage everyone in that area to come out to celebrate North Highlands. 01:31:48.539 --> 01:31:51.979 SPEAKER_18: It will be Saturday, September 26th. 01:31:51.979 --> 01:31:53.539 SPEAKER_18: And I believe SMUD will be there. 01:31:53.539 --> 01:31:58.259 SPEAKER_18: I'm one of the sponsors and very much looking forward to seeing everybody in North Highlands. 01:31:58.260 --> 01:31:59.659 SPEAKER_18: There's not a whole lot of events up there. 01:31:59.659 --> 01:32:02.739 SPEAKER_18: But they have a great aerospace museum and a lot of stuff going on. 01:32:02.739 --> 01:32:05.619 SPEAKER_18: So glad to be there for that. 01:32:05.619 --> 01:32:13.420 SPEAKER_18: And then we did have a great celebration for past CEO Paul Lau at the Sacramento State. 01:32:13.420 --> 01:32:19.100 SPEAKER_18: And it was just wonderful to send him off after 44, 45 years of incredible work here 01:32:19.100 --> 01:32:21.860 SPEAKER_18: at SMUD starting as an intern at Sac State. 01:32:21.860 --> 01:32:24.480 SPEAKER_18: So very appropriate that we had it there. 01:32:24.480 --> 01:32:26.659 SPEAKER_18: So with that, I'll turn it back to you. 01:32:27.659 --> 01:32:28.659 Unknown: Thanks. 01:32:28.659 --> 01:32:32.220 Unknown: I guess it's my turn. 01:32:32.220 --> 01:32:33.220 SPEAKER_09: So a couple of things. 01:32:33.220 --> 01:32:39.500 SPEAKER_09: I dropped by a cooling center put on by the Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition 01:32:39.500 --> 01:32:46.659 SPEAKER_09: and had an extended conversation with Herman Baharona about what else? 01:32:46.659 --> 01:32:48.159 SPEAKER_09: Data centers. 01:32:48.159 --> 01:32:53.380 SPEAKER_09: And so it was just wonderful to see this organization doing things on the ground, helping people 01:32:53.380 --> 01:32:56.699 SPEAKER_09: out every day but then also worried about where we're going in the future. 01:32:56.699 --> 01:32:59.460 SPEAKER_09: And so that was I have to say interesting. 01:32:59.460 --> 01:33:07.779 SPEAKER_09: I filled in for director, I'm sorry, President Tamayo at the, well let me find out, the new 01:33:07.779 --> 01:33:11.220 SPEAKER_09: home Missionary Baptist Church community celebration. 01:33:11.220 --> 01:33:14.819 SPEAKER_09: They said I get to come back next year. 01:33:14.819 --> 01:33:20.500 SPEAKER_09: It was a wonderful event with a huge number of church folks and this great community engagement 01:33:20.520 --> 01:33:25.300 SPEAKER_09: activity that goes on there and any number of different booths and activities and fun 01:33:25.300 --> 01:33:27.800 SPEAKER_09: things to do and just some great food too. 01:33:27.800 --> 01:33:29.939 SPEAKER_09: So not going to miss that. 01:33:29.939 --> 01:33:34.460 SPEAKER_09: Anyway, sorry, I'll let you go. 01:33:34.460 --> 01:33:42.300 SPEAKER_09: Dropped by the Greenhouse Culinary Arts Intern Program where high school students practiced 01:33:42.300 --> 01:33:43.979 SPEAKER_09: running a restaurant. 01:33:43.979 --> 01:33:45.699 SPEAKER_09: And it was great. 01:33:45.699 --> 01:33:49.859 SPEAKER_09: That's an organization that SMUD sponsors, the Greenhouse in South Antomas. 01:33:49.859 --> 01:33:53.500 SPEAKER_09: And honestly, I think I had a $250 meal. 01:33:53.500 --> 01:33:56.819 SPEAKER_09: It was one of the best meals I've ever eaten all done by high school students. 01:33:56.819 --> 01:33:59.059 SPEAKER_09: It was just unbelievable there. 01:33:59.059 --> 01:34:01.699 SPEAKER_09: And had a great time and a lot of fun there. 01:34:01.699 --> 01:34:05.939 SPEAKER_09: I'll let President Tamayo go to that one next year just to make up for what he missed this 01:34:05.939 --> 01:34:08.420 SPEAKER_09: year. 01:34:08.420 --> 01:34:20.899 SPEAKER_09: Then with continuing the theme, dropped by the Cal Expo State Fair where Bella Vista won 01:34:20.899 --> 01:34:24.220 SPEAKER_09: the Watts Cooking Competition this year. 01:34:24.220 --> 01:34:29.060 SPEAKER_09: And I wanted to be sure and point out that Director Brandon Rose went to Bella Vista. 01:34:29.060 --> 01:34:31.980 SPEAKER_09: So he dropped by to share in the celebration. 01:34:31.980 --> 01:34:37.880 SPEAKER_09: And again, just a group of high school students won the competition and prepared some great 01:34:37.880 --> 01:34:40.560 SPEAKER_09: food for a big crowd at the State Fair. 01:34:40.560 --> 01:34:42.600 SPEAKER_09: Had a lot of fun at that. 01:34:42.600 --> 01:34:46.279 SPEAKER_09: And last thing, oh, two things, I'm sorry. 01:34:46.279 --> 01:34:55.960 SPEAKER_09: Also traveled to meet with the Shingle Springs Band of the Miwok Indians and with the Director, 01:34:55.960 --> 01:35:01.880 Unknown: I'm sorry, President Tamayo and Director Herber and also a key SMUD staff. 01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:05.079 SPEAKER_09: Frankie and Emily traveled with us. 01:35:05.079 --> 01:35:07.840 SPEAKER_09: Frankie McDermott and Emily Bikini. 01:35:07.840 --> 01:35:13.600 SPEAKER_09: So try and sort of road test our land acknowledgment statement. 01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:16.680 SPEAKER_09: They had some great suggestions for things that we could do and look forward to bringing 01:35:16.680 --> 01:35:18.279 SPEAKER_09: that back. 01:35:18.279 --> 01:35:25.400 SPEAKER_09: And just in a side note here, I traveled to Napa to the 80th birthday party of one of 01:35:25.400 --> 01:35:33.199 SPEAKER_09: the former board members here, Larry Carr, who was having family from all over the country 01:35:33.199 --> 01:35:35.720 SPEAKER_09: and friends from high school and college. 01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:38.199 SPEAKER_09: And it was a big crowd in a huge room. 01:35:38.199 --> 01:35:43.279 SPEAKER_09: And I was really happy to be there for Larry and celebrate his 80th birthday. 01:35:43.279 --> 01:35:48.599 SPEAKER_09: And to remind him, because he hasn't kept up on all the details of what goes on at SMUD 01:35:48.599 --> 01:35:55.420 SPEAKER_09: since he moved on to be a city council member and then retired, that what was originally 01:35:55.420 --> 01:36:00.800 SPEAKER_09: his initiative on policy governance at the SMUD board continues strong to this day. 01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:06.279 SPEAKER_09: And I think it's one of the key factors that saves the SMUD ratepayers almost a billion 01:36:06.279 --> 01:36:11.920 SPEAKER_09: dollars a year over being in a different utility. 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:16.079 SPEAKER_09: And so it's a proud moment for Larry, I think a proud moment for all of us. 01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:19.360 SPEAKER_09: With that, thank you. 01:36:19.360 --> 01:36:20.360 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Director Kurth. 01:36:20.360 --> 01:36:21.360 SPEAKER_04: I didn't forget anybody. 01:36:21.360 --> 01:36:23.880 SPEAKER_04: I got out of order, so I'm not sure. 01:36:23.880 --> 01:36:24.880 SPEAKER_04: Okay. 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:26.119 SPEAKER_04: So I didn't forget anybody. 01:36:26.119 --> 01:36:30.760 SPEAKER_04: So first of all, we save almost $2 billion a year for a Medicare care. 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:31.760 SPEAKER_04: That's right. 01:36:31.760 --> 01:36:32.760 SPEAKER_04: It's gone up. 01:36:32.760 --> 01:36:33.760 SPEAKER_04: Sorry. 01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:36.920 SPEAKER_04: I'm going to start out with something unusual. 01:36:36.920 --> 01:36:40.280 SPEAKER_04: So I took a vacation to Vancouver, British Columbia. 01:36:40.280 --> 01:36:46.100 SPEAKER_04: And one of the things, even though we were without electricity most of the time, one 01:36:46.100 --> 01:36:52.480 SPEAKER_04: thing that was really notable there was that because they have BC Hydro, which is a public 01:36:52.480 --> 01:36:57.400 SPEAKER_04: agency and it's inexpensive, there's a lot of electric vehicles up there. 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:03.319 SPEAKER_04: And then another thing that I noticed was that one of the local, I was going to say 01:37:03.319 --> 01:37:11.239 SPEAKER_04: Native American, but First Nations of Canada, they have as part of their economic plan, 01:37:11.239 --> 01:37:15.439 SPEAKER_04: they have a run of the river electric generation plant. 01:37:15.439 --> 01:37:19.639 SPEAKER_04: And they have lots of rivers and they probably, I'm guessing they probably have more, but 01:37:19.639 --> 01:37:26.879 SPEAKER_04: it was really interesting to see the amount of hydro that they have. 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:28.960 SPEAKER_04: Up there where it rains a lot. 01:37:28.960 --> 01:37:38.119 SPEAKER_04: So anyway, I had the privilege of going to Filipino American chamber mixer. 01:37:38.119 --> 01:37:44.600 SPEAKER_04: And then also I went to the rainbow chamber that Director Herber spoke at. 01:37:44.600 --> 01:37:50.600 SPEAKER_04: And I was just really impressed with the one, the level of energy of the people who were 01:37:50.600 --> 01:37:56.480 SPEAKER_04: attending and their interest in the types of assistance that SMUD has to help people 01:37:56.479 --> 01:37:59.039 SPEAKER_04: be successful in their business. 01:37:59.039 --> 01:38:05.879 SPEAKER_04: And I thought that our staff did a great presentation for the amount of time that I was able to 01:38:05.879 --> 01:38:06.879 SPEAKER_04: be there. 01:38:06.879 --> 01:38:15.279 SPEAKER_04: I went to Florin Square Development Center for a small business development workshop. 01:38:15.279 --> 01:38:20.119 SPEAKER_04: It was an all day workshop that we were one of the main sponsors of. 01:38:20.119 --> 01:38:27.960 SPEAKER_04: And people had a lot of access to workshops and information on how to be successful in 01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:35.199 SPEAKER_04: their businesses, a lot of small businesses in large of the Florin and Meadowview area. 01:38:35.199 --> 01:38:37.439 SPEAKER_04: I think that's a really valuable thing that we do. 01:38:37.439 --> 01:38:39.479 SPEAKER_04: I think we do that every year. 01:38:39.479 --> 01:38:43.840 SPEAKER_04: And I think that it's actually really helpful to the community down there. 01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:49.960 SPEAKER_04: I did have the extreme privilege of going up to the Apple Hill Growers Association annual 01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:56.760 SPEAKER_04: dinner and our Suresh Kota and his lovely wife were there too. 01:38:56.760 --> 01:38:57.760 SPEAKER_04: And it's a great event. 01:38:57.760 --> 01:39:02.360 SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry, a little reluctant to share what a great event it is because I know there's 01:39:02.360 --> 01:39:05.960 SPEAKER_04: going to be competition for the seats at the table there. 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:12.199 SPEAKER_04: But it's a really nice thing that we help sponsor and participate in and increase our 01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:17.000 SPEAKER_04: connection to El Dorado County even though we don't serve them with electricity, we're 01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:22.279 SPEAKER_04: still an important part of their community for a variety of reasons. 01:39:22.279 --> 01:39:24.399 SPEAKER_04: And we have a lot of employees up there. 01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:27.399 SPEAKER_04: So it's really good to have a presence there. 01:39:27.399 --> 01:39:28.439 SPEAKER_04: And it's really good food. 01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:35.199 SPEAKER_04: So don't go, you know, because it won't be any good next year. 01:39:35.199 --> 01:39:39.199 SPEAKER_04: So and I'll take the bullet for you on that. 01:39:39.199 --> 01:39:43.399 SPEAKER_04: The land acknowledgment visit that we had was very enlightening. 01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:49.720 SPEAKER_04: It's great to see one, it was great to have their very meaningful input into what we should 01:39:49.720 --> 01:39:54.399 SPEAKER_04: consider having in our land acknowledgment and how that should be done. 01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:57.639 SPEAKER_04: So some great ideas on what we should consider. 01:39:57.639 --> 01:40:03.399 SPEAKER_04: But it was also really inspiring to see the level of effort that they're putting into 01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:06.359 SPEAKER_04: raising awareness of their culture. 01:40:06.359 --> 01:40:15.199 SPEAKER_04: And I think that maybe that's something that we could partner with them on in how we do 01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:22.920 SPEAKER_04: our land acknowledgment but also right after the very next day I went to the Folsom Zoo 01:40:22.920 --> 01:40:27.239 SPEAKER_04: and I could tell that they had been in contact with this tribe because they had for each 01:40:27.239 --> 01:40:33.960 SPEAKER_04: of the animals, they had both the Miwok and the Nisanon names for all of the animals. 01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:38.920 SPEAKER_04: And I could tell from the materials that we had seen up there that they had done that. 01:40:38.920 --> 01:40:44.680 SPEAKER_04: And perhaps there's other opportunities that we and other agencies down here could support 01:40:44.680 --> 01:40:46.480 SPEAKER_04: that awareness of their culture. 01:40:46.480 --> 01:40:50.039 SPEAKER_04: It was actually pretty inspiring. 01:40:50.039 --> 01:40:57.880 SPEAKER_04: I had a great opportunity to speak at the Indian Association of Sacramento. 01:40:57.880 --> 01:41:05.159 SPEAKER_04: And so people from Indian descent or actually from India come together. 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:06.880 SPEAKER_04: It's sort of a big umbrella group. 01:41:06.880 --> 01:41:10.400 SPEAKER_04: So there's people from states all over India. 01:41:10.400 --> 01:41:21.079 SPEAKER_04: And I had a nice opportunity to speak there on behalf of SMUD and speak to one group that 01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:27.560 SPEAKER_04: works with kids on implementing artificial intelligence. 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:33.360 SPEAKER_04: And it's another one of the many STEM oriented things that we support in the community. 01:41:33.360 --> 01:41:34.600 SPEAKER_04: So that was inspiring. 01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:45.920 SPEAKER_04: And then I went with Director Fishman to the Iranian American Cultural and Education Center 01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:53.680 Unknown: celebration and Director Fishman was very modest in not mentioning that he did part 01:41:53.680 --> 01:41:57.080 SPEAKER_04: of his speaking in Farsi. 01:41:57.079 --> 01:42:01.479 SPEAKER_04: So he got a lot of applause for that. 01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:05.720 SPEAKER_04: And let's see, what else? 01:42:05.720 --> 01:42:11.559 SPEAKER_04: Today I went to meet the buyers at our customer service center. 01:42:11.559 --> 01:42:12.559 SPEAKER_04: And that was amazing. 01:42:12.559 --> 01:42:14.519 SPEAKER_04: There were so many people there. 01:42:14.519 --> 01:42:16.840 SPEAKER_04: And we had so much information for them. 01:42:16.840 --> 01:42:19.319 SPEAKER_04: We couldn't get everybody all in one room. 01:42:19.319 --> 01:42:23.960 SPEAKER_04: But it was really great to see the interest of people wanting to do business with us and 01:42:23.960 --> 01:42:29.600 SPEAKER_04: the amount of support that we give folks so that they can be successful in trying to 01:42:29.600 --> 01:42:30.600 SPEAKER_04: do business. 01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:38.640 SPEAKER_04: And then I also went to the community resource event that we put together. 01:42:38.640 --> 01:42:41.760 SPEAKER_04: And it was held at the Salvation Army in Oak Park. 01:42:41.760 --> 01:42:51.000 SPEAKER_04: And we had a number of our partners and other community agencies, the county, various educational 01:42:51.000 --> 01:42:57.119 SPEAKER_04: and health care and just community groups like Asian Resources and La Familia. 01:42:57.119 --> 01:43:05.039 SPEAKER_04: Even PG&E was there offering some of their customers assistance. 01:43:05.039 --> 01:43:07.560 SPEAKER_04: And that was really well attended. 01:43:07.560 --> 01:43:15.319 SPEAKER_04: I mean, almost all of the booths had multiple people waiting to speak to the people there. 01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:19.600 SPEAKER_04: I haven't seen one of those events be that successful. 01:43:19.600 --> 01:43:25.000 SPEAKER_04: So kudos to the SMUD team who really did a lot of outreach. 01:43:25.000 --> 01:43:28.960 SPEAKER_04: And certainly there's a lot of people in that community that need help with a lot of different 01:43:28.960 --> 01:43:29.960 SPEAKER_04: issues. 01:43:29.960 --> 01:43:34.280 SPEAKER_04: But it seemed to me to be very successful and really positive energy. 01:43:34.280 --> 01:43:37.960 SPEAKER_04: People were really interested in the resources. 01:43:37.960 --> 01:43:45.440 SPEAKER_04: And then finally I went to the sort of retirement farewell thing with Claire. 01:43:45.439 --> 01:43:49.199 SPEAKER_04: I learned a lot about her history with SMUD. 01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:52.279 SPEAKER_04: A lot happens over a long career like that. 01:43:52.279 --> 01:43:54.679 SPEAKER_04: I got to see some great pictures. 01:43:54.679 --> 01:44:00.639 SPEAKER_04: And one of the bonus things was that a guy named Paul Lau showed up with a visitor badge 01:44:00.639 --> 01:44:03.439 Unknown: and wearing shorts, he looked very relaxed. 01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:05.000 SPEAKER_04: And it was nice to see him there. 01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:13.519 SPEAKER_04: And he said some very kind words about his long-term collaboration and working with Claire. 01:44:13.520 --> 01:44:20.480 SPEAKER_04: And as Greg, I'm in Claire's neighborhood like a lot. 01:44:20.480 --> 01:44:25.560 SPEAKER_04: So I won't be missing her because I probably see her a lot too. 01:44:25.560 --> 01:44:28.520 SPEAKER_04: But we'll miss you, your efforts here. 01:44:28.520 --> 01:44:34.000 SPEAKER_04: But I know that you have trained up a good successor. 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:38.040 SPEAKER_04: And thank you very much for that parting gift. 01:44:38.040 --> 01:44:41.360 SPEAKER_04: So anyway, congratulations on your retirement. 01:44:41.359 --> 01:44:47.799 SPEAKER_04: And finally I had my first one-on-one meeting with our brand new CEO. 01:44:47.799 --> 01:44:54.319 SPEAKER_04: And she seems to have settled in very nicely and doesn't seem too stressed out. 01:44:54.319 --> 01:44:55.719 SPEAKER_04: Seems like she knows what's going on. 01:44:55.719 --> 01:44:59.839 SPEAKER_04: So I'm very happy with the excellent choice that we made. 01:44:59.839 --> 01:45:04.920 SPEAKER_04: And so with that, I'm going to hand it over to you for your CEO report. 01:45:04.920 --> 01:45:06.420 SPEAKER_04: Your very first one. 01:45:06.420 --> 01:45:07.759 SPEAKER_04: Thank you, President Tamayo. 01:45:07.759 --> 01:45:10.599 SPEAKER_02: And congratulations, Claire, on your retirement. 01:45:10.600 --> 01:45:12.440 SPEAKER_02: Thank you for your years of service. 01:45:12.440 --> 01:45:14.840 SPEAKER_02: And we wish you the best. 01:45:14.840 --> 01:45:17.280 SPEAKER_02: Very excited to be delivering my first CEO report. 01:45:17.280 --> 01:45:21.440 SPEAKER_02: So I do want to thank the board for your support over the last few weeks. 01:45:21.440 --> 01:45:23.360 SPEAKER_02: I think this is day 14 for me. 01:45:23.360 --> 01:45:24.360 SPEAKER_02: I think it's 14. 01:45:24.360 --> 01:45:25.360 SPEAKER_02: So thank you. 01:45:25.360 --> 01:45:28.160 SPEAKER_02: I'm incredibly excited about the journey ahead with all of you. 01:45:28.160 --> 01:45:30.560 SPEAKER_02: And it's an honor to have your trust. 01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:33.200 SPEAKER_02: As you know, we are stewards of a vital community asset. 01:45:33.200 --> 01:45:37.680 SPEAKER_02: And so I'm very excited to be on this journey to power our region for a more prosperous, 01:45:37.680 --> 01:45:39.720 SPEAKER_02: resilient, and sustainable future. 01:45:39.800 --> 01:45:42.920 SPEAKER_02: I'm proud to share that we've accomplished a major milestone this month. 01:45:42.920 --> 01:45:48.320 SPEAKER_02: On August 11th, we successfully cut over our OMS, our outage management system. 01:45:48.320 --> 01:45:52.400 SPEAKER_02: The OMS is the system that we use within distribution system operations. 01:45:52.400 --> 01:45:57.880 SPEAKER_02: Our DSOs and our crews gather information, manage and restore power outages using that 01:45:57.880 --> 01:45:58.880 SPEAKER_02: system. 01:45:58.880 --> 01:46:03.100 SPEAKER_02: Our previous OMS was nearing the end of its life or nearing end of support. 01:46:03.100 --> 01:46:08.840 SPEAKER_02: And by replacing it with Emerson's or formerly OSI Open Systems International, with their 01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:12.560 SPEAKER_02: OMS, we're improving the resiliency of our core operational system and equipping our 01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:19.279 SPEAKER_02: teams with enhanced outage and information, situational information and awareness. 01:46:19.279 --> 01:46:23.400 SPEAKER_02: This project was a big undertaking from planning, design, and implementation to cut over. 01:46:23.400 --> 01:46:28.840 SPEAKER_02: And it required close collaboration across many teams at SMUD for three years. 01:46:28.840 --> 01:46:33.760 SPEAKER_02: During Go Live, we had teams providing 24-7 on-site support to the operators to ensure 01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:34.760 SPEAKER_02: a smooth transition. 01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:38.060 SPEAKER_02: It's a great job to the team involved in making this happen. 01:46:38.060 --> 01:46:43.380 SPEAKER_02: A shout out to Katarina Militiev and her team in distribution operations engineering 01:46:43.380 --> 01:46:48.460 SPEAKER_02: and Mike Whitter in terms of the operations technology support group as well. 01:46:48.460 --> 01:46:49.860 SPEAKER_02: I have more great news to share. 01:46:49.860 --> 01:46:53.539 SPEAKER_02: SMUD's Giving Fridays at the California State Fair was a huge success. 01:46:53.539 --> 01:46:57.460 SPEAKER_02: As always, we were out at the fair connecting with our customers and community, educating 01:46:57.460 --> 01:47:01.579 SPEAKER_02: fairgoers about our clean energy rebates and programs. 01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:06.239 SPEAKER_02: This year, we collected more than 36,000 pounds of food for the Sacramento Food Bank and Family 01:47:06.239 --> 01:47:09.880 SPEAKER_02: Services at our Giving Friday events. 01:47:09.880 --> 01:47:13.119 SPEAKER_02: That's the most ever and 500 pounds more than last year. 01:47:13.119 --> 01:47:17.059 SPEAKER_02: These donations will provide almost 30,000 meals for families facing food insecurities 01:47:17.059 --> 01:47:18.380 SPEAKER_02: in our community. 01:47:18.380 --> 01:47:20.420 SPEAKER_02: The numbers are really impressive. 01:47:20.420 --> 01:47:27.140 SPEAKER_02: Our team distributed over 12,000 outage drawstring bags and 3,000 LED nightlights while connecting 01:47:27.140 --> 01:47:30.600 SPEAKER_02: our customers with programs and rebates to help them save. 01:47:30.620 --> 01:47:34.220 SPEAKER_02: Those are so important connections and have a lasting impact. 01:47:34.220 --> 01:47:38.560 SPEAKER_02: We also hosted an induction cooking demo and celebrated the next generation of sustainable 01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:39.980 SPEAKER_02: chefs. 01:47:39.980 --> 01:47:43.500 SPEAKER_02: The Bella Vista High School team was there and they won our Watts Cooking Induction Cooking 01:47:43.500 --> 01:47:44.500 SPEAKER_02: Competition. 01:47:44.500 --> 01:47:49.160 Unknown: Thanks to all who came out to support SMUD at the fair and thanks to the volunteers and 01:47:49.160 --> 01:47:55.360 SPEAKER_02: to our board members and executives that were there as well for giving your time to connect 01:47:55.360 --> 01:47:57.880 SPEAKER_02: with thousands of community members. 01:47:57.880 --> 01:48:01.480 SPEAKER_02: Thanks for putting on such a successful community presence again this year. 01:48:01.480 --> 01:48:05.560 SPEAKER_02: This month, we celebrated the dedication and growth of our most recent intern class at 01:48:05.560 --> 01:48:07.480 SPEAKER_02: the intern showcase. 01:48:07.480 --> 01:48:11.180 SPEAKER_02: This diverse group included summer high school, college, and year-round interns. 01:48:11.180 --> 01:48:14.699 SPEAKER_02: We brought them together to highlight their impressive work and share insights about their 01:48:14.699 --> 01:48:16.319 SPEAKER_02: experience at SMUD. 01:48:16.319 --> 01:48:21.380 SPEAKER_02: Over the year, our award-winning internship program has expanded significantly and this 01:48:21.380 --> 01:48:23.239 SPEAKER_02: year we had even more than ever. 01:48:23.599 --> 01:48:28.179 SPEAKER_02: In fact, we had so many interns at this year's showcase that we filled all the rooms and 01:48:28.179 --> 01:48:31.460 SPEAKER_02: open spaces on the first floor in this building. 01:48:31.460 --> 01:48:35.420 SPEAKER_02: Currently we have more than 70 year-round interns across our business units and then 01:48:35.420 --> 01:48:39.119 SPEAKER_02: during the summer that number increases to over 120 interns. 01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:43.519 SPEAKER_02: It was great to hear about the real world challenges that we have our interns working 01:48:43.519 --> 01:48:49.380 SPEAKER_02: on from complex data analytics projects to engaging with our community at events to supporting 01:48:49.380 --> 01:48:54.380 SPEAKER_02: our customers, digital experiences, and our interns are doing such meaningful work that 01:48:54.380 --> 01:48:56.940 SPEAKER_02: it will set them up for future success. 01:48:56.940 --> 01:49:00.239 SPEAKER_02: We're grateful for the work of all of our interns in helping us build a clean energy 01:49:00.239 --> 01:49:02.239 SPEAKER_02: future. 01:49:02.239 --> 01:49:06.619 SPEAKER_02: And finally, tonight's video will feature our chief customer officer, Brandi Bolden, 01:49:06.619 --> 01:49:08.340 SPEAKER_02: and members of her team who are here. 01:49:08.340 --> 01:49:13.380 Unknown: It's about our commitment to serving our customers, both residential and business, 01:49:13.380 --> 01:49:18.279 SPEAKER_02: and how our customer programs help lower customers' bills, increase energy efficiency, and improve 01:49:18.279 --> 01:49:20.159 SPEAKER_02: the region's air quality. 01:49:20.159 --> 01:49:24.920 Unknown: Ultimately, being community-owned and not-for-profit means that we're always striving to deliver 01:49:24.920 --> 01:49:29.920 SPEAKER_02: best-in-class services and personalized solutions that can help improve the quality of life 01:49:29.920 --> 01:49:32.239 SPEAKER_02: for our customers and our community. 01:49:32.239 --> 01:49:36.199 SPEAKER_02: So let's take a look. 01:49:36.199 --> 01:49:40.079 SPEAKER_00: People don't work for SMUD just to work for a utility. 01:49:40.079 --> 01:49:45.439 SPEAKER_00: They work for SMUD because they want to engage in our community in a very meaningful and 01:49:45.439 --> 01:49:47.439 SPEAKER_00: deliberate and intentional way. 01:49:47.439 --> 01:49:53.479 SPEAKER_14: I feel very honored to be able to come in and work with customers and help them find 01:49:53.479 --> 01:50:00.000 SPEAKER_14: solutions or just being out and about and being part of the community. 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:06.000 SPEAKER_12: When you see the relief and just the happiness and the joy that you can bring a customer 01:50:06.000 --> 01:50:10.599 SPEAKER_12: just by saying you're approved for a discount that you qualify for, to know that you can 01:50:10.599 --> 01:50:15.679 SPEAKER_12: make that big of an impact, it's just, it's phenomenal. 01:50:15.680 --> 01:50:21.159 SPEAKER_00: These power life, they are the center of everything that we do. 01:50:21.159 --> 01:50:26.800 SPEAKER_16: At SMUD, our customer programs help lower customer bills, increase energy efficiency, 01:50:26.800 --> 01:50:31.039 SPEAKER_16: and improve the region's air quality through clean energy options. 01:50:31.039 --> 01:50:35.440 SPEAKER_00: Our programs and services really center around improving the quality of life for our customers 01:50:35.440 --> 01:50:37.380 SPEAKER_00: and community. 01:50:37.380 --> 01:50:41.800 SPEAKER_12: We will go into underserved communities and we will do neighborhood walks where we will 01:50:41.800 --> 01:50:46.600 SPEAKER_12: send our energy specialists out, sometimes with board members, and we'll go door knocking 01:50:46.600 --> 01:50:50.840 SPEAKER_12: and we'll let customers know that, hey, we are at this local agency. 01:50:50.840 --> 01:50:51.840 SPEAKER_12: Please go down there. 01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:57.659 SPEAKER_12: We're processing our EPR apps and our discount program applications on site. 01:50:57.659 --> 01:51:01.640 SPEAKER_00: We show up for our business customers the same way we show up for our residential customers. 01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:07.480 SPEAKER_00: Every single commercial account has a dedicated strategic account advisor that services that 01:51:07.479 --> 01:51:11.759 SPEAKER_00: customer and that account in meeting all of their needs. 01:51:11.759 --> 01:51:14.119 Unknown: I think trust starts with listening. 01:51:14.119 --> 01:51:18.699 SPEAKER_14: In customer service, you always are trying to get to the solution, which is important, 01:51:18.699 --> 01:51:23.099 SPEAKER_14: but listening to the customer, I think, is even more because when you get to have the 01:51:23.099 --> 01:51:28.579 SPEAKER_14: customer talk about their future plan, as I'm listening, I'm kind of formulating different 01:51:28.579 --> 01:51:31.539 SPEAKER_14: ways that I can approach the customer. 01:51:31.539 --> 01:51:35.579 SPEAKER_00: Every single interaction is an opportunity to build or break trust. 01:51:35.840 --> 01:51:39.859 SPEAKER_00: And so in everything that we do, we want to make sure that we are building that trust 01:51:39.859 --> 01:51:45.260 SPEAKER_00: through being easy to do business with, being responsive to our customer needs. 01:51:45.260 --> 01:51:51.059 SPEAKER_16: Whether customers visit us at our customer service center or connect with us at local events, 01:51:51.059 --> 01:51:56.140 SPEAKER_16: we make sure it's easy for them to get the information and support they need. 01:51:56.140 --> 01:52:00.960 SPEAKER_12: Having different resource expos, having different opportunities to be out in the community and 01:52:00.960 --> 01:52:05.140 SPEAKER_12: provide these services, it lets the customers know that we're there for them. 01:52:06.380 --> 01:52:10.800 SPEAKER_12: I know what it's like to be in need, to grow up with a single mother. 01:52:10.800 --> 01:52:14.899 SPEAKER_12: So to be able to give back to the community that I come from is just something that is 01:52:14.899 --> 01:52:18.300 SPEAKER_12: just nothing short of amazing. 01:52:18.300 --> 01:52:23.720 SPEAKER_00: It's important that we pay attention to what our customers want and need and build those 01:52:23.720 --> 01:52:28.979 SPEAKER_00: programs and services that meet their needs in order to provide the value that they deserve. 01:52:28.979 --> 01:52:34.300 SPEAKER_16: From keeping the lights on to delivering top tier customer service programs, we put our 01:52:34.300 --> 01:52:36.699 SPEAKER_16: community first. 01:52:36.699 --> 01:52:38.699 SPEAKER_16: Learn more at smud.org. 01:52:52.460 --> 01:52:54.659 SPEAKER_02: That concludes my report. 01:52:54.659 --> 01:52:57.739 SPEAKER_04: Thank you very much. 01:52:57.739 --> 01:53:03.100 SPEAKER_04: Do we have any summary of note for the record? 01:53:03.100 --> 01:53:07.260 SPEAKER_15: I have a staff will check on CR National's performance record. 01:53:07.260 --> 01:53:12.620 SPEAKER_15: We'll provide additional information to the board about the solicitation process and criteria. 01:53:12.620 --> 01:53:16.860 SPEAKER_15: And we'll add the CWA to the board parking lot for discussion. 01:53:16.860 --> 01:53:17.860 Unknown: Okay. 01:53:17.860 --> 01:53:18.860 Unknown: Thank you. 01:53:18.860 --> 01:53:19.860 Unknown: All right. 01:53:19.860 --> 01:53:25.700 SPEAKER_04: So seeing no further business, this meeting is adjourned. 01:53:25.700 --> 01:53:26.700 SPEAKER_04: Thank you. 01:53:26.699 --> 01:53:27.699 Unknown: Thank you.