Unknown: Wait, hope it's done.
Unknown: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: So we'll get started in five seconds.
SPEAKER_11: Five seconds, please.
SPEAKER_02: Five seconds.
Unknown: Okay.
Unknown: Good evening.
SPEAKER_11: And I will call to order the SMUD Board of Directors meeting of May 21, 2026.
SPEAKER_11: Please stand and join me in the pledge for the flag.
Unknown: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
SPEAKER_12: which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: This meeting of the SMUD Board of Directors is recorded with closed captioning.
SPEAKER_11: The recording will be cable cast on Metro Cable 14, the local government affairs channel
SPEAKER_11: on Comcast and DirecTV, U-verse cable systems.
SPEAKER_11: The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14live.saccounty.gov.
SPEAKER_11: Today's meeting replays Sunday, May 24 at 2 p.m. and Monday, May 25 at 6 p.m. on Metro
SPEAKER_11: Cable Channel 14.
SPEAKER_11: Once posted, the recording of this meeting can be viewed on demand at YouTube.com, Metro
SPEAKER_11: Cable 14.
SPEAKER_11: Please remember to unmute your microphone when speaking in order that our virtual attendees
SPEAKER_11: may hear.
SPEAKER_11: The microphone will display a green indicator light when the mic is on.
SPEAKER_11: Please put all electronic devices in the silent mode while in the auditorium.
SPEAKER_11: For members of the public attending in person who wish to speak at this meeting, please
SPEAKER_11: fill out a speaker's request form located on the table outside this room and hand it
SPEAKER_11: to SMUD security.
SPEAKER_11: Members of the public attending this meeting virtually who wish to provide verbal comments
SPEAKER_11: during the board meeting may do so by using the raise hand feature in Zoom or pressing
SPEAKER_11: star 9 while dialed into the telephone toll-free number at the time public comment is called.
SPEAKER_11: Technical support staff will enable the audio for you when your name is announced during
SPEAKER_11: the public comment period.
SPEAKER_11: You may also submit written comments by emailing them to publiccommentatsmud.org.
SPEAKER_11: Written comments will not be read into the record but will be provided to the board electronically
SPEAKER_11: and placed into the record of the meeting if received within two hours after the meeting
SPEAKER_11: ends.
SPEAKER_11: Members may speak to items on the agenda on which the board will take action and may also
SPEAKER_11: address the board on other agenda items and items not on the agenda but within our jurisdiction
SPEAKER_11: during the general comment period.
SPEAKER_11: This auditorium is equipped with a safety alarm.
SPEAKER_11: If the alarm sounds, please leave in an orderly manner via the exits to the lobby or behind
SPEAKER_11: the dais.
SPEAKER_11: Assemble in front of the building and wait to hear the all clear announcement from security
SPEAKER_11: before reentering.
SPEAKER_11: Would the deputy general counsel please conduct the roll call?
SPEAKER_03: Director Rose.
Unknown: I'm here.
SPEAKER_03: Director Buie-Thompson.
Unknown: Present.
SPEAKER_03: Director Fisherman.
Unknown: Here.
SPEAKER_03: Director Herbert.
SPEAKER_01: Here.
SPEAKER_03: Vice President Kurth.
Unknown: Here.
SPEAKER_03: Director Sanborn.
Unknown: Here.
SPEAKER_03: President Tamayo.
SPEAKER_03: Here.
SPEAKER_03: All board members are present.
SPEAKER_11: You have received our 2030 climate action tip.
SPEAKER_09: Thank you.
SPEAKER_09: These are the May summer tips.
SPEAKER_09: SMUD is committed to 100% zero carbon by 2030.
SPEAKER_09: There's a lot you can do to join the charge and help us lead the global green power movement
SPEAKER_09: right here at home.
SPEAKER_09: I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_09: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_09: The global clean power city movement right here at home.
SPEAKER_09: Summer is just around the corner and we have many resources to help you save money and
SPEAKER_09: energy during these hot months.
SPEAKER_09: By setting your thermostat to 78 degrees or higher, you can save 5 to 10% on your cooling
SPEAKER_09: cost.
Unknown: Join the charge with us at cleanpowercity.org to learn more.
SPEAKER_09: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Director Kurth.
SPEAKER_11: Now if there are no corrections, changes or additions, I'll entertain a motion to approve
SPEAKER_11: the agenda.
Unknown: I need to make one correction, please, President Tamayo.
SPEAKER_13: Oh, this is the agenda, not the consent calendar.
SPEAKER_13: Oh, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_13: I'll wait.
SPEAKER_13: Yeah.
Unknown: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I would move adoption.
Unknown: Second.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: So moved by Director Herber, seconded by Director Fishman.
SPEAKER_11: Directors please vote.
Unknown: Motion passes with all directors voting yes.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: So at this point in the agenda, I have the pleasure of introducing the winners of this
SPEAKER_11: year's annual Earth Day Art Competition.
SPEAKER_11: And in a second, I'll be down at the podium to read off the names.
SPEAKER_11: But first, I just want to say a few words.
SPEAKER_11: And I know that you heard me talk a little bit on the other side, but I wanted to make
SPEAKER_11: sure that we acknowledge this in our recorded official meeting.
SPEAKER_11: So this is the fourth time we've had an Earth Day Art Competition.
SPEAKER_11: It's actually a really important part of our effort to achieve 2030, to achieve zero carbon
SPEAKER_11: by the year 2030.
SPEAKER_11: And also to make progress on electrifying both our buildings and our transportation,
SPEAKER_11: because those actually have much greater carbon emissions.
SPEAKER_11: So you students who participated in this, well, first of all, congratulations to those
SPEAKER_11: of you who made the calendar.
SPEAKER_11: It's a beautiful calendar.
SPEAKER_11: I really like the art in this.
SPEAKER_11: And I'm going to have this up on my wall and share this with my friends.
SPEAKER_11: But we really thank you for your great work, for your artwork, but also for your attention
SPEAKER_11: to the issues that you're helping spread the word about.
SPEAKER_11: So that's what this is all about, having you think about it, having your friends think
SPEAKER_11: about it, and having the public see your art, and getting that message shared with them
SPEAKER_11: through your beautiful artwork.
SPEAKER_11: So I'm going to change position here, and I'll be reading you off, and you'll be coming
SPEAKER_11: up and receiving your certificates.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
Unknown: OK, our first artist is Kalia Chen, at Alder Creek Elementary School, a kindergartner.
SPEAKER_10: Congratulations.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Our next artist is Jasmine Karia Wasom, of Alder Creek Elementary School, another kindergartner.
SPEAKER_11: Come on up.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Our next artist is another kindergartner, Sankar Saralaya.
SPEAKER_11: And he's from Goldridge Elementary.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Amelia Navarez, of Robert Fite Elementary School.
SPEAKER_11: Come on up.
Unknown: Amelia is a first grader, and we have another first grader.
SPEAKER_11: It's Skye Kuderchulun, of Alder Creek Elementary School, another first grader.
SPEAKER_11: Come on up.
Unknown: Oh, she's not here.
SPEAKER_11: OK.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
Unknown: Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_11: OK.
SPEAKER_11: The next artist is Jazrita Eddupali, of Goldridge Elementary School, second grader.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Another second grader, this time from Clarksville Charter, is Mila Rong.
Unknown: Another second grader from Goldridge Elementary, Nida Guttu.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: A third grader from McGarvey Elementary School, Audrey Franklin.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Another artist who's not here is Enzo Diosana, of Miwok Village Elementary.
SPEAKER_11: And the next artist who's here, third grader from Russell Ranch Elementary, Palash Shah.
SPEAKER_11: Come on up.
Unknown: Now we've got a fourth grader from John Bidwell Elementary School, Jalea Fomai.
Unknown: I see that's Fomai.
SPEAKER_11: So, all right.
Unknown: Another fourth grader from the Gold River Discovery Center, Nora Imbabi.
Unknown: And another fourth grader is from Goldridge Elementary, and is Topasvi Reduvunga.
Unknown: Oh, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_11: And Topasvi is not here.
SPEAKER_11: But our next student artist who is here is Aglayia Kokinas.
Unknown: And she is a fifth grader at Cowan Fundamental.
SPEAKER_11: Another student who is not here, artist who's not here, is Azalea Santos of Charles Mack Elementary.
Unknown: A fifth grader from Alder Creek Elementary School, Taswika Madi-Rala.
Unknown: And the senior of the group, a sixth grader at Stone Lake Elementary, is Elise Beads-Bramer.
Unknown: And we're going to do a picture now with the artist and the board up here.
SPEAKER_11: You're in charge. You're the photographer.
Unknown: And we're going to push together a little bit more.
Unknown: All right, everyone, open up there. Take a hint.
Unknown: All right.
Unknown: All right, everyone, take a look up here. One, two, three.
Unknown: And if you don't mind.
Unknown: All right. One, two, three.
Unknown: Great.
Unknown: Thank you.
Unknown: All right.
Unknown: Yeah, so the board members come and we'll stand behind the artists.
Unknown: All right.
Unknown: One, two, three.
SPEAKER_11: You're going to let the – okay.
Unknown: Congratulations, everybody.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you for coming.
Unknown: Thank you.
Unknown: There's nobody here.
SPEAKER_09: We still have an audience of one.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Rhonda's a child at heart.
SPEAKER_11: So that was a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_11: Now on to the grim serious business of our normal board meeting.
SPEAKER_11: So we're going to go on to our committee chair reports and Director Sanborn, chair
SPEAKER_11: of the Strategic Development Committee, will give the report of the May 12, 2026 meeting.
SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
SPEAKER_05: We'll go ahead and the informational item that we had was an overview of the climate impacts
SPEAKER_05: projected for SMUD's upper American River project and a discussion of our projects and
SPEAKER_05: operational measures to address weather extremes.
SPEAKER_05: Managing variability is a core competency of our hydro operations and climate change
SPEAKER_05: is increasing both the range and the speed of variability which raises operational complexity,
SPEAKER_05: risk and the need for flexibility across our system.
SPEAKER_05: Key findings from the upper American River project climate vulnerability study were shared
SPEAKER_05: as were ways for us to improve our long term policy, strategy, planning and risk management
SPEAKER_05: to adapt to more extreme conditions.
SPEAKER_05: This included new research and tools to support operations and collaboration.
SPEAKER_05: This concludes my report.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: Now Director Herber, chair of the Policy Committee, will give you the report of the
SPEAKER_11: May 13, 2026 meeting.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you Mr. President.
SPEAKER_01: The Policy Committee met on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
SPEAKER_01: There were four discussion items.
SPEAKER_01: The first discussion item was a review of the monitoring report for a Strategic Direction
SPEAKER_01: 8, which deals with employee relations.
SPEAKER_01: The presentation highlighted SMUD's many programs supporting employees from onboarding
SPEAKER_01: to separation, emphasizing a strong commitment to attracting top talent, diversity initiatives
SPEAKER_01: and effective internal and external communication.
SPEAKER_01: Key efforts include community engagement, education outreach and the career ambassador
SPEAKER_01: program.
SPEAKER_01: The pipeline development includes over 5,300 internship applications with a 10% increase
SPEAKER_01: in hires and regional workforce development placed more than 830 individuals into new
SPEAKER_01: careers.
SPEAKER_01: SMUD remains fully compliant with SD8.
SPEAKER_01: This is item number seven on tonight's consent calendar.
SPEAKER_01: The second discussion item covered the monitoring report for a Strategic Direction 12, which
SPEAKER_01: is about ethics.
SPEAKER_01: SMUD prioritizes maintaining public trust and confidence through comprehensive policies
Unknown: and oversight involving legal and union collaboration.
SPEAKER_01: All employees acknowledge the code of conduct with a 99.37% compliance rate for the 2025
SPEAKER_01: training.
SPEAKER_01: SMUD effectively manages conflicts of interest with 99% of annual statements received.
SPEAKER_01: Training channels for policy violations are multifaceted.
SPEAKER_01: Discipline reporting has decreased in 2025.
SPEAKER_01: And SMUD demonstrated full compliance with Strategic Direction 12 on ethics.
SPEAKER_01: This is item number eight on the calendar that is the consent calendar tonight.
SPEAKER_01: The third discussion item addressed proposed revisions to the meeting procedures of the
SPEAKER_01: SMUD Board of Directors driven by Senate Bill 707.
SPEAKER_01: These revisions modernized public access requirements, teleconferencing protocols and procedures
SPEAKER_01: for handling service disruptions during meetings.
SPEAKER_01: This is item number 11 on tonight's discussion calendar.
SPEAKER_01: The fourth discussion item was on board monitoring regarding governance process 11, which deals
SPEAKER_01: with the board review of internal records.
SPEAKER_01: Finance process 14, external audit relationship was discussed and BL5, unity of control was
SPEAKER_01: discussed.
SPEAKER_01: This concludes my report.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Director Herber.
SPEAKER_11: Now Director Rose, chair of the Finance and Audit Committee will give the report of the
SPEAKER_11: May 19, 2026 meeting.
SPEAKER_10: Thank you, President Tumayo.
SPEAKER_10: We have a short one tonight.
SPEAKER_10: So Finance and Audit Committee we met on Tuesday, May 19.
SPEAKER_10: There were two discussion items and one informational item.
SPEAKER_10: The first discussion item was on approval of SMUD's amended 2026 pay schedule and other
SPEAKER_10: pay compensation policy in accordance with CalPERS requirements.
SPEAKER_10: This is item number nine on tonight's consent calendar.
SPEAKER_10: The second discussion item was on adopting a resolution calling for the election of directors
SPEAKER_10: for wards three, four, six and seven and requesting Sacramento County to consolidate that election
SPEAKER_10: with the November 3rd, 2026 general election.
SPEAKER_10: This is item number 10 on tonight's consent calendar.
SPEAKER_10: The informational item was provided the board with a summary of SMUD's financial results
SPEAKER_10: for the three month period ending March 31st, 2026 and a summary of SMUD's current power
SPEAKER_10: supply costs.
SPEAKER_10: This includes the report.
SPEAKER_10: Thank you.
Unknown: All right.
Unknown: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: At this time, we will take comments from the public on the consent calendar.
SPEAKER_11: Have we received any cards or requests?
SPEAKER_03: We have received none.
Unknown: Mr. President, now I believe it's the right time for me to ask to pull the board compensation
SPEAKER_14: from the consent calendar.
SPEAKER_14: There's an item on my compensation that shouldn't be there, so I want to amend that and then
SPEAKER_14: we can vote on it separately.
Unknown: Yes.
SPEAKER_11: We'll go ahead and do that.
SPEAKER_11: And I just noticed that I have something that shouldn't be on my sheet either, so we'll
SPEAKER_11: be making a couple of amendments there.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
Unknown: All right.
Unknown: So the rest of the consent calendar that we're not pulling is item number three is to approve
SPEAKER_11: board member compensation for service rendered at the request of the board for the period
SPEAKER_11: – oh, well, that's what we're pulling.
SPEAKER_11: Excuse me.
SPEAKER_11: Item number four is the approval of the minutes of the special meeting of April 7, 2026.
SPEAKER_11: Item number five is the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of April 21, 2026.
SPEAKER_11: Items number six through – number eight were reviewed at the policy committee of May
SPEAKER_11: 13, 2026.
SPEAKER_11: Item number nine and number 10 were reviewed at the Finance and Audit Committee of May
SPEAKER_11: 19, 2026.
SPEAKER_11: So other than pulling the board member compensation, if there are no other corrections, changes,
SPEAKER_11: or additions, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar.
SPEAKER_13: So moved.
SPEAKER_13: Second.
SPEAKER_11: So moved.
SPEAKER_11: Okay.
SPEAKER_11: Moved by Director Fishman, seconded by Director Rose.
SPEAKER_11: Directors, please vote.
Unknown: The carries with all directors voting yes.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: So we will circle back to item number three, which is board member compensation for April
SPEAKER_11: 16 through May 15 of this year.
SPEAKER_11: Director Fishman?
SPEAKER_14: Yeah.
SPEAKER_14: The item on my compensation, a personal meeting on May 15, somehow found its way onto my compensation
SPEAKER_14: – it should not be there – I've already discussed this with board staff.
SPEAKER_14: They're going to make the appropriate adjustments to my actual compensation, but I just need
SPEAKER_14: to pull that off the compensation record.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: And the item for mine – and I have not discussed this with board staff, but I will take full
SPEAKER_11: responsibility for not getting it pulled off – is there's an item for April 19th.
SPEAKER_11: It says Dave and Chris check in, and that should not be on there.
SPEAKER_11: So we'll pull that, and then we'll vote on that now.
SPEAKER_11: Is that – okay.
SPEAKER_11: If there are no other corrections or additions, I'll accept a motion to approve the board
SPEAKER_11: member compensation.
SPEAKER_01: So moved.
Unknown: Second.
Unknown: Okay.
SPEAKER_11: Moved by Director Herber and seconded by Director Fishman.
SPEAKER_11: Directors, please vote.
SPEAKER_03: Motion carries with all directors voting yes.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Now that we're done with that exciting, unexpected change to the agenda, we'll move on to statements
SPEAKER_11: from the – oh, excuse me.
SPEAKER_11: I am in the wrong place.
SPEAKER_11: We're moving on to our discussion calendar.
SPEAKER_11: Item number 12 is to approve proposed revisions to the meeting procedures of the SMUD Board
SPEAKER_11: of Directors.
SPEAKER_11: And Joe Schofield, our deputy general counsel, will proceed with his presentation.
SPEAKER_03: Thank you, President Tomayo.
SPEAKER_03: If you were here for the May 13th policy committee, you already heard this presentation.
SPEAKER_03: It would normally be on the consent calendar, but the statute says it cannot be approved
Unknown: by – on the consent calendar.
SPEAKER_03: So here we are, getting the same presentation a second time.
SPEAKER_03: I will first note that I made a misstatement at the prior meeting.
SPEAKER_03: I said to the board that there was one time and one time only when the Zoom platform had
SPEAKER_03: been interrupted, interfering with the ability of the public to participate, and I was informed
SPEAKER_03: that was actually incorrect.
SPEAKER_03: There were no times when the Zoom platform went down.
SPEAKER_03: There was one time when the Zoom platform was congested, and it was kind of annoying
SPEAKER_03: for the public to have to wait until they could make their public comment.
SPEAKER_03: So this is a policy requirement of the state that requires this board to adopt a policy
SPEAKER_03: that in essence handles what would happen in the event of a Zoom platform disruption
SPEAKER_03: during the board meeting.
SPEAKER_03: And it's never happened before.
SPEAKER_03: It may never happen to this board, but just in case, we will have a policy to address
SPEAKER_03: it.
SPEAKER_03: And it does essentially one thing.
SPEAKER_03: If the Zoom platform goes down, this meeting has to be promptly adjourned.
SPEAKER_03: The committee or president will immediately direct staff to begin working on resuming
SPEAKER_03: the Zoom platform connectivity.
SPEAKER_03: And in the meantime, the board may resume to closed session.
SPEAKER_03: And the meeting cannot resume unless one of two things happens.
SPEAKER_03: The first thing is that the Zoom connectivity is regained, in which case the meeting is
SPEAKER_03: gabbled back into order and life goes on.
SPEAKER_03: And the second one is that the board is sitting in the closed session room for an hour and
SPEAKER_03: at which time efforts have been made unsuccessful.
SPEAKER_03: And the board has the opportunity to gather back into session long enough to hold a vote
SPEAKER_03: of finding.
SPEAKER_03: And whether or not the board finds that reasonable efforts have been made to restore connectivity
SPEAKER_03: and the public interest requires or outweighs the interference of the public's ability to
SPEAKER_03: participate and therefore they should resume the meeting.
SPEAKER_03: Or conversely, they might decide not to make that finding.
SPEAKER_03: So that is essentially the entire presentation.
SPEAKER_03: And the recommendation is that the board adopt this policy.
Unknown: Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_11: So do we have any discussion?
Unknown: I can just say I've missed that meeting, but that sounds very reasonable to me.
SPEAKER_05: So I would support it.
SPEAKER_09: Just a quick comment.
SPEAKER_09: I intend to support the issue apparently because it's required of us.
SPEAKER_09: But as is often the case when the state legislates things that affect other governments, they
SPEAKER_09: ignore the needs of a great many people involved in this.
SPEAKER_09: We're talking here about the folks who are unable to attend by Zoom.
SPEAKER_09: But we're not actually even considering the concerns of the people who do attend in person.
SPEAKER_09: Because what we're going to be saying to them is, well, sorry, meetings probably over.
SPEAKER_09: You can wait around and see if we want to go on.
SPEAKER_09: It's much harder to attend a meeting in person.
SPEAKER_09: And this is completely disrespectful of those folks.
SPEAKER_11: Anything else?
SPEAKER_11: That's it.
SPEAKER_11: Thanks.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Do we have any requests from the public to speak on this item?
SPEAKER_03: We do not.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Okay.
SPEAKER_11: So if there's no further discussion, I'll entertain a motion to approve this item, number
SPEAKER_11: 11.
Unknown: Motion to approve.
Unknown: Second.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Moved by Director Sanborn, seconded by Director Fishman.
SPEAKER_11: Directors, please vote.
SPEAKER_03: The motion carries.
SPEAKER_03: All directors, voting yes.
Unknown: I sure hope that never happens.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Probably just jinxed us.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: So at this time, we allow the public to comment on items not on the agenda, but within our
SPEAKER_11: jurisdiction.
SPEAKER_11: I do have one card.
SPEAKER_11: Do we have any others or any other requests?
SPEAKER_11: Those are all the cards that I've received.
SPEAKER_11: Okay.
SPEAKER_11: So the one person wishes to speak on this is Scott Slatterbeck.
SPEAKER_11: Come on up to the microphone.
SPEAKER_11: Don't move the microphone.
SPEAKER_11: We'll pick you up.
SPEAKER_11: Go ahead.
SPEAKER_11: I know that the SMUD Board has an ambitious goal of having clean energy, zero carbon by
SPEAKER_00: 2030.
Unknown: I want to address beyond 2030, which is less than four years away.
SPEAKER_00: First of all, I want to talk about energy per se.
SPEAKER_00: These are not my thoughts, but these are thoughts from people who have looked at the
SPEAKER_00: use of energy.
SPEAKER_00: From a fundamental perspective, human evolution can be seen as a quest for more forms of energy,
SPEAKER_00: more affordable, and more versatile forms of energy.
SPEAKER_00: Energy consumption is a measure of civilization, more, cheaper, and faster.
SPEAKER_00: Energy is the lifeblood of civilization.
SPEAKER_00: So looking beyond 2030 and these limited goals of having just zero carbon, the board and
SPEAKER_00: the SMUD itself needs to look at future forms of energy.
SPEAKER_00: I know this board has looked primarily at solar and wind energy, so-called renewable
SPEAKER_00: energy.
Unknown: They've ignored the real energy of the future, which is nuclear energy, both fission and
SPEAKER_00: fusion energy, if it ever comes to pass.
SPEAKER_00: I would ask the board itself to consider looking at years beyond 2030 and considering lobbying
SPEAKER_00: the legislature to repeal the outdated and, I guess, limited look at this restriction
SPEAKER_00: of using nuclear power because of the supposed problems with nuclear waste.
Unknown: I'd ask the board to consider lobbying the legislature to eliminate that.
SPEAKER_00: Solar is fine, but it takes up a lot of land, as this board has been confronted with recently.
SPEAKER_00: Wind is something that I think must be eliminated, wind energy, unless it can be developed where
SPEAKER_00: it doesn't kill more than a million birds a year.
SPEAKER_00: In the United States alone, it just can't continue this way.
SPEAKER_00: Nuclear power is the only form of energy that is efficient, clean, safe, and always
SPEAKER_00: on and carbon free.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Mr. Slatterbeck.
SPEAKER_11: I will make one brief comment.
SPEAKER_11: We have not ignored it.
SPEAKER_11: We've actually had several presentations, both on fusion and fission, over the last
SPEAKER_11: few years just to see where those are at.
SPEAKER_11: So it's definitely not being ignored.
Unknown: Anyway, I'll just end with that.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
Unknown: I'm sorry, can we direct staff to get information to respond to some of his comments to make
SPEAKER_05: sure he has the full information about what we have been working on?
SPEAKER_05: Because it's been quite a bit, I think.
Unknown: Yeah, certainly we can do that.
Unknown: I just want to make sure everybody has the information.
SPEAKER_01: If it's okay, I just would put in my two cents that we are working on an integrated resource
SPEAKER_01: plan, actually, the staff is, which will be looking much more into the future.
SPEAKER_01: So we're not just looking at 2030.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: So now we're moving on to our director's report.
SPEAKER_11: At this point, we provide directors an opportunity to report on SMUD activity.
SPEAKER_11: We'll begin with the report from Director Rose and Ward 1 and continue in ward order
SPEAKER_11: with my report as the final item.
SPEAKER_11: Director.
Unknown: Great.
SPEAKER_10: Thank you.
SPEAKER_10: I'll sort of run through quickly some of the key highlights.
SPEAKER_10: One of the things I did, I think I mentioned this, but maybe we haven't got to it, was
SPEAKER_10: our building leadership team did the bike distribution last month.
SPEAKER_10: I got out there with them and that was a lot of fun, helping some little kids learn how
SPEAKER_10: to ride a bike.
SPEAKER_10: It was fun.
SPEAKER_10: We both got scratched up, but she was riding by the end, which was great.
SPEAKER_10: Then also got out with many of the board members out to the cap to cap event in Washington,
SPEAKER_10: D.C., which was awesome as always.
SPEAKER_10: Had an opportunity to stop by the CAPS 10-year anniversary gala and also the Midtown Association,
SPEAKER_10: their Midtown Love Event, which was an opening of this great art installation they have done
SPEAKER_10: in Fremont Park.
SPEAKER_10: They have about eight foot tall light-up glowing poppies throughout the park.
SPEAKER_10: I was running for 40 days, so if anybody has an opportunity, I would highly encourage
SPEAKER_10: folks to get out to Fremont Park and take a peek at that.
SPEAKER_10: I thought it was particularly cool, completely free, of course.
SPEAKER_10: I would thank Kaiser for sponsoring that.
SPEAKER_10: Also made it out to the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, their annual celebration.
SPEAKER_10: Got to the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services 50th anniversary event as well, which
SPEAKER_10: was great to see them celebrating, helping so many people for so many years.
SPEAKER_10: Then not on my schedule, but I also got a little bit of time, just an hour or two at
SPEAKER_10: the CCA conference, I was able to walk and talk to some of their vendors and have some
SPEAKER_10: really good discussions with our staff.
SPEAKER_10: That will conclude my report.
Unknown: Thanks.
Unknown: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: Director Buichon.
SPEAKER_06: Okay, great.
SPEAKER_06: Thank you.
SPEAKER_06: I attended CAPTCCAP, which is always, for those that people don't know, we have over
SPEAKER_06: 600 elected and business leaders from across the region, lobby, and DC on various issues
SPEAKER_06: of note.
SPEAKER_06: I was part of the business climate team, where we advocated, obviously, for more favorable
SPEAKER_06: grant making and tax structures to help grow business in our region.
SPEAKER_06: We meet with members of our legislature, but also members of various government agencies.
SPEAKER_06: It's a busy week to be able to connect with both people from Sacramento and people in
SPEAKER_06: DC, lobbying.
SPEAKER_06: I also attended the annual Make-A-Wish event.
SPEAKER_06: It's a really nice event for those of you that don't know Make-A-Wish, but all year
SPEAKER_06: long, this organization provides opportunities for children experiencing severe health issues.
SPEAKER_06: They were able to grant two significant wishes that evening.
SPEAKER_06: It was really nice to hear from the grantees.
SPEAKER_06: I also had the opportunity to speak at the Energy Thought Summit, which was held in San
SPEAKER_06: Antonio, which is a small executive summit that brings together thought leaders from
SPEAKER_06: across the country.
SPEAKER_06: This year, we actually had several international members that came.
SPEAKER_06: I was proud to support our fellow staff that also spoke, our CEO, Paul Lau, and Chief Carbon
SPEAKER_06: Zero Officer, Laura Angway, who also spoke at that conference.
SPEAKER_06: We also have various fun events, like Midtown Love, which are very on Laura Lewis, who is
SPEAKER_06: on the board of directors of the Midtown Business Association.
SPEAKER_06: So happy to support them.
SPEAKER_06: I was the big ducky winner, which is great to support Midtown and one lovely piece of
SPEAKER_06: art from Gina Rossi, who donated her time and efforts to support the Midtown Association.
SPEAKER_06: I also attended the Greater Sacramento Council event, which is an annual celebration that
SPEAKER_06: honors members of the community and their achievements to attracting and retaining businesses
SPEAKER_06: to our region.
SPEAKER_06: Then I played in two great golf tournaments, the Roseville Mayor's Cup, which was great
SPEAKER_06: to connect with those in Roseville, our neighboring utility there.
SPEAKER_06: Thank you to all the staff that worked so hard for the SMUD Cares golf tournament.
SPEAKER_06: It's grown.
SPEAKER_06: It's actually grown by leaps and bounds.
SPEAKER_06: This year, they had two courses and raised a significant amount of money for our SMUD
SPEAKER_06: Cares charity.
SPEAKER_06: So thank you for all the staff who were involved in putting that on.
SPEAKER_06: That concludes my report.
SPEAKER_14: I think I'm up.
SPEAKER_14: Let's see.
SPEAKER_14: Sac Nav, the Lighthouse, I went to their office grand opening.
SPEAKER_14: This is an organization that works with people experiencing homelessness.
SPEAKER_14: It gives them jobs, job training, direction, and it's good to see that they have an actual
SPEAKER_14: home office now, something they haven't had for a long time.
SPEAKER_14: So they're now up and running in North Highlands.
Unknown: I will mention only this is a monthly thing for me because I'm actually chairing the committee
SPEAKER_14: for the American River Parkway Foundation summer solstice dinner that's coming up on
SPEAKER_14: June 20th.
SPEAKER_14: There are still some tickets available.
SPEAKER_14: You can go to arpf.org if you're interested.
SPEAKER_14: Let's see.
SPEAKER_14: I speak at a SMUD sponsored event for the Carmichael Chamber, their business mixer,
SPEAKER_14: a few days ago.
SPEAKER_14: Always a fun event.
SPEAKER_14: I believe I was filling in for Director Sanborn who was not available.
SPEAKER_14: Always Carmichael there just right there.
SPEAKER_14: And then I also went to the Rosemont Community Association, their annual meeting.
SPEAKER_14: And I am forced to admit publicly that I have not been present enough in the Rosemont community,
SPEAKER_14: which is part of my ward.
SPEAKER_14: And I'm going to remedy that because they had a good meeting.
SPEAKER_14: They had a big resource fair with a bunch of tables and the county was there.
SPEAKER_14: SMUD was there, a bunch of other organizations, and I need to pay more attention to Roseville.
SPEAKER_14: So that's my promise for the day.
SPEAKER_14: And I think that's all I got.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Mr. President.
SPEAKER_01: With just a wave of your hand, we do it.
SPEAKER_13: It's the presidential wave.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Well, this was, gosh, it was a really busy time.
SPEAKER_01: One thing that I enjoyed immensely was going to the tree hero celebration put on by the
SPEAKER_01: Sacramento Tree Foundation.
SPEAKER_01: And it was at the Sophia and there was a nice balcony.
SPEAKER_01: The weather was perfect.
SPEAKER_01: And we celebrated trees.
SPEAKER_01: And so I just want to say that was a magnificent gathering.
SPEAKER_01: And Jessica, the executive director, did a really amazing job in putting that event together.
SPEAKER_01: Also want to say that I went to Earth Day way back in April.
SPEAKER_01: It was really exciting though, because there were so many people there and they were interested
SPEAKER_01: in so many different things.
SPEAKER_01: I walked around and looked at several of the different booths and every aspect of sustainability
SPEAKER_01: was represented there.
SPEAKER_01: And SMUD was well represented.
SPEAKER_01: We had our electric cars and we had a couple of different booths on our different programs.
SPEAKER_01: So that was just an excellent event.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, staff, for that.
SPEAKER_01: Also let's see.
SPEAKER_01: I got to speak at the Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center, their block party called Heartbeats.
SPEAKER_01: And this was over at Sac City College.
SPEAKER_01: And it was really playful.
SPEAKER_01: A younger crowd, lots of music, Vice Mayor Katrina Corinna Telemantes was there.
SPEAKER_01: And it was really neat to just see a lot of different young people learning about things
SPEAKER_01: and enjoying the music and food.
SPEAKER_01: It was a fun day.
SPEAKER_01: Also got to speak at the Capital Region Small Business Awards.
SPEAKER_01: And that is a really special event because a lot of times people just focus on the big
SPEAKER_01: businesses.
SPEAKER_01: But this was all about small businesses that are continuing to grow.
SPEAKER_01: And I was very pleased to see SMUD there and all of our account managers.
SPEAKER_01: It was really nice.
SPEAKER_01: And then, oh boy, this was fun.
SPEAKER_01: The Sacramento History Museum now has an exhibit on baseball.
SPEAKER_01: And they had a grand opening.
SPEAKER_01: The exhibit is called Play Ball.
SPEAKER_01: And the people who attended the event, there were a lot of older gentlemen who used to
SPEAKER_01: play in the different leagues here.
SPEAKER_01: And boy, did they have stories about how they recruited people and what they did to
SPEAKER_01: be able to get connected to the folks that they wanted to recruit and put on their teams.
SPEAKER_01: And that is going to continue at the History Museum.
SPEAKER_01: The exhibit goes through, I think it's September.
SPEAKER_01: So check that one out.
SPEAKER_01: And then last but not least, I went to the California Community Choice Association Conference.
SPEAKER_01: And a lot of the people there are from community choice aggregators who aggregate the load
SPEAKER_01: on different towns and cities who want to have clean energy and buy it from these community
SPEAKER_01: choice aggregators.
SPEAKER_01: So lots of discussion about what's coming in the future, concern about the increase
SPEAKER_01: in cost for renewable energy.
SPEAKER_01: And lots of very interesting activist people were there.
SPEAKER_01: So I enjoyed that and talking to folks.
SPEAKER_01: And with that, I'll turn it over to the next one.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you, Director Herbert.
SPEAKER_11: That was great enthusiasm for all the things that you did.
SPEAKER_11: It's terrific.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: All right, Director Kurth.
SPEAKER_09: I don't get a wave.
SPEAKER_09: Okay.
SPEAKER_09: Thank you.
SPEAKER_09: I'll get you a dismissive wave.
SPEAKER_09: I expected it.
SPEAKER_09: I'll do these in reverse order.
SPEAKER_09: I checked in with the Downtown Sacramento Partnership doing a business walk.
SPEAKER_09: It was, of course, a brief check-in.
SPEAKER_09: But it's very interesting to hear what the people in the downtown are saying and the
SPEAKER_09: changes in the evolution of the district management where they've actually retired
SPEAKER_09: their downtown guide program and have moved now to a 24-hour security program.
SPEAKER_09: Next up, attended the Energy Thought Summit and really just a wonderful experience to
SPEAKER_09: hear from all these leaders in the utility world, both from Sacramento or I'm sorry,
SPEAKER_09: both from the United States and from other countries.
SPEAKER_09: Thinking about, of course, primarily how do we reduce the carbon footprint of our energy
SPEAKER_09: systems, but also how do we expand options and keep rates low and not leave people behind?
SPEAKER_09: It was a major event from all the aspects of the things that are important to us here
SPEAKER_09: at SMUD and got some great ideas on that.
SPEAKER_09: And lastly, attended the Cap2Cap trip.
SPEAKER_09: I want to highlight that.
SPEAKER_09: I was on the one of my civic amenities team, trying to find the right word there.
SPEAKER_09: There's other names for that team.
SPEAKER_09: And we toured several developments in the Washington, D.C. area looking for possibilities
SPEAKER_09: of things that we could do here in California, Sacramento region.
SPEAKER_09: One of the areas that we toured was the Union Market District, which 10 years ago was pretty
SPEAKER_09: much an abandoned part of Washington, D.C., very close to the Capitol.
SPEAKER_09: It's just on the far side of Union Station.
SPEAKER_09: And in a very short 10 years, they've managed to maintain the industrial and commercial
SPEAKER_09: backbone that's there while adding an art and entertainment district and a significant
SPEAKER_09: amount of housing within this one, you know, by 40 or so square block area.
SPEAKER_09: Beautiful combination of private financing, private leadership, but also public financing
SPEAKER_09: and redevelopment money going in to make it all happen.
SPEAKER_09: I, of course, had to ask the energy question.
SPEAKER_09: They quadrupled the energy consumption of this 40 block area in the process of redeveloping
SPEAKER_09: it.
SPEAKER_09: So there's definitely an overlap there for what SMUD does.
SPEAKER_09: But coming home, I have to admit, I've been thinking about it, the entire experience
SPEAKER_09: was bittersweet because I can't imagine us ever pulling this off in California.
SPEAKER_09: The regulation that we have, the loss of the redevelopment financing, the really strident
SPEAKER_09: application of building codes and regulations, many of which, you know, know a little bit
SPEAKER_09: about it.
SPEAKER_09: In Texas, they don't worry about so much.
SPEAKER_09: I'm sorry, in Washington, D.C., they don't worry about so much.
SPEAKER_09: I just concluded that those things are almost impossible.
SPEAKER_09: And I think one of the examples was when I was on the city council in 1992, I voted on
SPEAKER_09: the first plan for the rail yards.
SPEAKER_09: And there's still a long ways to go in the rail yards.
SPEAKER_09: And I hate to say it, but that was many, many years ago now.
SPEAKER_09: And so somehow just that ability to, you know, finish a community in a couple of generations
SPEAKER_09: is pretty amazing.
SPEAKER_09: And it is possible.
SPEAKER_09: We should remind ourselves of that.
SPEAKER_09: So with that, I will conclude my director's report.
SPEAKER_09: Sorry, I had to soapbox a little bit.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Director Sanborn.
Unknown: Thank you, President Tumayo.
SPEAKER_05: So I had the great pleasure.
SPEAKER_05: My friend actually did organize the tour of the Kalpine Geysers geothermal facility.
SPEAKER_05: And I had never seen it before.
SPEAKER_05: I do recall we expanded our procurement of the geothermal from that plant not long ago.
SPEAKER_05: We had 100 megawatts and then we have 150 of the 700 that they generate.
SPEAKER_05: But if the public can go and have free tours, they're four hours long, it was quite robust.
SPEAKER_05: And they take you up into the mountains in northern Napa County, southern Lake County.
SPEAKER_05: And you see just plant after plant after plant of geothermal.
SPEAKER_05: They have a very unique, it's the largest complex of geothermal in the world.
SPEAKER_05: They have a very large pool of warm molten rock very high below the surface.
SPEAKER_05: And we actually, I did not know this until I read the wall.
SPEAKER_05: We owned one of those plants until 1989.
SPEAKER_05: So I took a picture and sent it to our CEO and I said, I didn't know we owned that because
SPEAKER_05: now we're buying it back.
SPEAKER_05: But we sold it at the time because it didn't make financial sense.
SPEAKER_05: And so that's fine.
SPEAKER_05: But again, that's renewable.
SPEAKER_05: It's base load.
SPEAKER_05: It's constant.
SPEAKER_05: And it's earth.
SPEAKER_05: It is as green as it gets.
SPEAKER_05: And it's very cost effective.
SPEAKER_05: So I've said this before and I'll say it again.
SPEAKER_05: I think the state needs to really look and the DOE needs to really look at how to invest
SPEAKER_05: in tapping and using some of the fracking technologies they developed for gas and oil
Unknown: of how to go down and sideways and all the ways and deeper to get at earth's heat.
SPEAKER_05: Because that's how we can generate power clean forever and base load without waste problems
SPEAKER_05: without anything else.
SPEAKER_05: So I hope we do that.
SPEAKER_05: Because in this state I saw the map of where the geothermal resources are in the country
SPEAKER_05: and we have a lot of them here in California.
SPEAKER_05: So if you haven't taken the tour of the public into the fellow board members, I highly encourage
SPEAKER_05: you.
SPEAKER_05: It was wonderful.
SPEAKER_05: Also I spoke at the Carmichael Improvement District, state of the Improvement District
SPEAKER_05: in Carmichael.
SPEAKER_05: And it's just wonderful to see the progress that they've made.
SPEAKER_05: They hired a full-time director.
SPEAKER_05: She's doing a great job.
SPEAKER_05: A lot of cleaning up of the area.
SPEAKER_05: A lot of business walks.
SPEAKER_05: SMAUD's been involved in a lot of it.
SPEAKER_05: But I want to congratulate them.
SPEAKER_05: They've done a fantastic job.
Unknown: I spoke at the opening, the groundbreaking of the prime data center in McClellan.
SPEAKER_05: And I wanted to bring up, this is in the bigger picture of data centers.
SPEAKER_05: A lot of people hear a lot of things in the news about data centers.
SPEAKER_05: And I just want to say there's a lot of different types of data centers.
SPEAKER_05: And they have different impacts.
SPEAKER_05: This particular one, they already have one on site.
SPEAKER_05: And they're adding another one.
SPEAKER_05: It is an Energy Star building, which means it uses 35% less power than a non-Energy Star
SPEAKER_05: building.
SPEAKER_05: Closed loop.
SPEAKER_05: But we at SMAUD are required to provide power.
SPEAKER_05: And we ran not just for this location, but for the whole of McClellan Business Park,
SPEAKER_05: which is growing very quickly and has robust business development there.
SPEAKER_05: We did four miles of underground subterranean transmission line, which will provide much
SPEAKER_05: more reliable and expanded service to the whole of McClellan, which is wonderful because
SPEAKER_05: there's a lot of businesses there.
SPEAKER_05: So I was thrilled to see it.
SPEAKER_05: And I'm going to get a more detailed tour.
SPEAKER_05: But I would encourage people, you know, I had some emails of folks that were concerned
SPEAKER_05: about data centers.
SPEAKER_05: I'm learning about them too.
SPEAKER_05: I think the community, we're all getting, you know, hearing that there's requests for
SPEAKER_05: data centers to site here.
SPEAKER_05: And we've had discussions about them here at the board.
SPEAKER_05: But I think, you know, we have to start getting information out or I don't know if it's us
SPEAKER_05: or whomever, but the public is getting concerned and they don't understand it.
SPEAKER_05: And maybe there's a way we can do more public education on this so that everybody is aware
SPEAKER_05: of the different types of data centers and their impacts or not impacts.
SPEAKER_05: I also spoke at the SACNAV Lighthouse Grand Opening in North Highlands.
SPEAKER_05: And just want to thank Chris and Rebecca Evans for doing all the work that they do
SPEAKER_05: to help people literally, they go into unhoused, you know, service providers and they find
SPEAKER_05: people who are willing and wanting to get a job and they actually help train them, get
SPEAKER_05: them jobs, get them the coaching they need, and then they're off.
SPEAKER_05: And it's just wonderful.
SPEAKER_05: So they're wonderful people.
SPEAKER_05: And I want to thank and congratulate Chris and Rebecca Evans for their leadership on
SPEAKER_05: that.
SPEAKER_05: And then G-SIC was awesome.
SPEAKER_05: They had an incredible event and just want to thank everybody at the Greater Sacramento
SPEAKER_05: Economic Council for all the work they're doing for the community to bring jobs and
SPEAKER_05: businesses here.
SPEAKER_05: And lastly, on cap to cap, I was on the energy and innovation team and we were promoting
SPEAKER_05: biomass.
SPEAKER_05: Biomass is where you take literal biomass, whether it's trees or it's ag waste like rice
SPEAKER_05: holes or something and you combust them and you create energy.
SPEAKER_05: The reason that that's so important is that the state has an awful lot of it.
SPEAKER_05: We used to just open burn and we still are open burning ag waste and that is a huge waste
SPEAKER_05: of energy and a lot of carbon going in the atmosphere.
Unknown: I've talked to farmers who had 70 acres of almond trees that they could not find a home
SPEAKER_05: for.
SPEAKER_05: We did not have enough biomass and they had to open burn it.
SPEAKER_05: That is not good for anybody.
SPEAKER_05: It's not good for our lungs.
SPEAKER_05: If we can bust it in an internal plant and create energy with it, it would be a win-win.
SPEAKER_05: The same with the forest.
SPEAKER_05: We've got a lot of thick, thick forests that we'd rather not have another calder fire.
SPEAKER_05: If we thin it, do or let it get it to a maintenance position, we could take all of that and burn
SPEAKER_05: it in biomass plants.
SPEAKER_05: That's something that we've promoted and we were thrilled to hear today that Secretary
SPEAKER_05: Crowfoot sent a letter out to the departments that in his agency at Natural Resources asking
SPEAKER_05: them to look again at biomass.
SPEAKER_05: So hopefully the word's getting around that we had those meetings in D.C.
SPEAKER_05: So with that, I will turn it back over to the President.
SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you very much, Director Sanborn.
SPEAKER_11: So I went to a few things the last month.
SPEAKER_11: I'm going to try and be quick about this.
SPEAKER_11: The solar regatta at Rancho Seiko Recreation Area went to both the high school and the
SPEAKER_11: college one and they were just amazing.
SPEAKER_11: The level of energy was incredible and I'm glad that we have a long history of doing
SPEAKER_11: that and I encourage board members to go check it out because it's a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_11: So I went to the 10th anniversary celebration of CAPS, the Conference of Asian American
SPEAKER_11: Professionals and that was just a really, really great thing.
SPEAKER_11: We were recognized for being a long time partner with them.
SPEAKER_11: We've been sponsoring their work ever since they formed and they're an important part
SPEAKER_11: of us reaching in particular the Asian American community with our SEED program and other
SPEAKER_11: programs that we have to support small businesses in our area and also just the networking aspect
SPEAKER_11: of it.
Unknown: Let's see.
SPEAKER_11: I attended a performance by a community folklore group called Calidanza and it was at the Sophia
SPEAKER_11: Theater and it was just a marvelous thing.
SPEAKER_11: They had a professional troupe that was performing but they have a lot of performances or a lot
SPEAKER_11: of programs to introduce that to kids in our area.
SPEAKER_11: So congratulations to them.
SPEAKER_11: It's a growing program and an important cultural thing.
SPEAKER_11: Tended the Watts Cooking.
SPEAKER_11: I think there were eight or nine high schools that were competing to cooking on induction
SPEAKER_11: cooktops.
SPEAKER_11: This was hosted at Cosumnes River College and everybody cooked the same thing and there
SPEAKER_11: was a lot of enthusiasm with that and you could tell they were all taking it very seriously.
SPEAKER_11: So that was a lot of fun to watch that.
SPEAKER_11: All of the kitchens were completely powered by our fleet of Ford Lightnings.
SPEAKER_11: We had a staff of electricians, a crew of electricians there to keep an eye on all of that.
SPEAKER_11: That's a great event.
SPEAKER_11: It was amongst the celebrity judges were Randy Sellen, Patrick Mulvaney, Billy Ngo and Brad
SPEAKER_11: Checkey.
SPEAKER_11: There were a couple others.
SPEAKER_11: I'm sorry I forgot their names but I was pretty impressed by us corralling those folks,
SPEAKER_11: some of the best known chefs in our area to judge that.
SPEAKER_11: That was a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_11: I attended an event by the Salvation Army and their honoree was our friend Sateri Kolokotronis.
SPEAKER_11: It was a community champion lifetime achievement type of award.
SPEAKER_11: I've known a lot about things that he's done in our community but it goes way beyond what
SPEAKER_11: I was aware of and it was just very touching to learn more about what Sateri is doing.
SPEAKER_11: So Sincarateria to Sateri.
SPEAKER_11: That's congratulations in Greek.
SPEAKER_11: I went to the signing of the new Water Forum 2050 agreement and they've been working on
SPEAKER_11: that for the last few years.
SPEAKER_11: It was a lot of fun for me because I worked for the County Department of Water Resources
SPEAKER_11: so there were a lot of people that I've known actually really since the beginning of the
SPEAKER_11: Water Forum.
SPEAKER_11: A lot of people from my department and other people that I've touched on professionally
SPEAKER_11: over the years were there so that was actually a really meaningful thing.
SPEAKER_11: SMUD was actually kind of a small player in the water world but it was really neat because
SPEAKER_11: it's an important thing for the environment and for just the economic vitality of our
SPEAKER_11: region that we're able to have that framework that talks about how we're going to utilize
SPEAKER_11: water and how we're going to have co-equal goals of protecting the environment and using
SPEAKER_11: water for economic purposes.
SPEAKER_11: I attended the groundbreaking at the City of Refuge which is a shelter.
SPEAKER_11: It's more than a shelter.
SPEAKER_11: It's really a home for people who are escaping terrible circumstances in their life.
SPEAKER_11: It's in Oak Park.
SPEAKER_11: They're building a multi-story building.
SPEAKER_11: It's currently an empty lot and we got a lot of thanks for our ability to move some high
SPEAKER_11: voltage distribution lines out of the way or actually we raised them to make it so that
SPEAKER_11: they could more fully utilize that land and had a discussion with the founders of that
SPEAKER_11: and it just seems like a great organization.
SPEAKER_11: I attended a BIA leadership forum.
SPEAKER_11: There is a panel of I think five or six women who were executives in various segments of
SPEAKER_11: the building industry and they really just talked about how they developed their careers.
SPEAKER_11: It was actually very educational for me just to see how important it is to get support
SPEAKER_11: from your peers and from the leaders in your organization and actually just to take an
SPEAKER_11: active part in developing your career.
SPEAKER_11: I thought it was actually a really valuable discussion.
SPEAKER_11: I went to Energy Thought Summit as well.
SPEAKER_11: I won't belabor that but I do want to say some kudos to Director Bowie Thompson who was
SPEAKER_11: surprised that she was expected to speak when her friend Rudy Garza, the head of San Antonio,
SPEAKER_11: what is it, CPE?
Unknown: CPS.
SPEAKER_11: CPS, yeah.
SPEAKER_11: Air electric utility and you did a great job.
SPEAKER_11: Just right out of the box, oh yeah, by the way, you're speaking.
SPEAKER_11: You've got five or ten minutes and it was like she had worked on it for quite a while.
SPEAKER_11: It was very impressive.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_11: Then I did the swearing in ceremony for the newly constituted Filipino American Chamber
SPEAKER_11: of Commerce of Sacramento.
SPEAKER_11: That was nice.
SPEAKER_11: Let's see, what else did I do?
SPEAKER_11: Oh, the CCA conference.
SPEAKER_11: I'm going to start out by saying the CCA conference was I was able to spend to attend
SPEAKER_11: almost everything at that.
SPEAKER_11: I was really very impressed with the level of discussion that they had.
SPEAKER_11: The panels were very informative and very thoughtful.
SPEAKER_11: You can tell that that's an industry where the people have come along and they're much
SPEAKER_11: more, they've reached a pretty high level of sophistication of their understanding of
SPEAKER_11: the challenges facing electric utility at large and then also CCAs in particular.
SPEAKER_11: I happened to meet a number of the CEOs of the various organizations and other executives
SPEAKER_11: and staff members.
SPEAKER_11: During the very last panel, Jeff Cyphers, who's the CEO of Sonoma Clean Energy, he made
SPEAKER_11: the comment that he gave us a shout out.
SPEAKER_11: We got a lot of shout outs during the proceedings.
SPEAKER_11: He said that it was really remarkable that when he went out onto the street and talked
SPEAKER_11: to people about SMUD, that everybody that he talked to was very, very positive about
SPEAKER_11: us.
SPEAKER_11: He just made a point of talking about that and how that's just a really great thing for
SPEAKER_11: an electric utility to achieve to have that level of relationship and satisfaction, a
SPEAKER_11: respect from our community.
SPEAKER_11: I thought that was pretty cool that he gave us that shout out.
SPEAKER_11: I also happened to meet a geothermal developer and he told me a little bit more about how
SPEAKER_11: geothermal is likely to expand.
SPEAKER_11: I don't know if this is actually true, but apparently this technology is there to greatly
SPEAKER_11: expand the capacity of geothermal by, I think he said it at least three or four times.
SPEAKER_11: Maybe it was more than that.
SPEAKER_11: There's a lot more energy that can be made available through more modern technology.
SPEAKER_11: So I spent a lot of time there, but it was really time well spent and really happy to
SPEAKER_11: have done that.
SPEAKER_11: I got a surprise while I was at CCA.
SPEAKER_11: Our very own Alcides Hernandez stopped me in the lobby and told me that the CCA world
SPEAKER_11: is stealing him away and you're heading off to Marin Clean Energy.
SPEAKER_11: It didn't seem like it was in confidence and plus I saw something on LinkedIn about it.
SPEAKER_11: So I thought you're in the audience.
SPEAKER_11: I'm going to say something about it.
SPEAKER_11: I'm sorry to see you go, but I'm happy for you.
SPEAKER_11: I know it's going to be a great opportunity for you.
SPEAKER_11: I wanted to thank you for all of your great work over the years.
SPEAKER_11: It's been very helpful.
SPEAKER_11: You're very informative.
SPEAKER_11: And when you go about working out the new rates and stuff, have a lot of confidence.
SPEAKER_11: And I'm sure you have built a great team behind you to take up the slack once you leave.
SPEAKER_11: Have you left us yet?
SPEAKER_11: Or is it?
SPEAKER_11: I can't remember what.
SPEAKER_11: So anyway, but thank you very much.
SPEAKER_11: So I'm glad you're here and I got an opportunity to give you that shout out.
SPEAKER_11: So Claire, you're not leaving yet, right?
Unknown: Three more months.
SPEAKER_11: Okay.
SPEAKER_11: We'll get you in three months.
SPEAKER_11: So all right.
SPEAKER_11: And I know where you live.
SPEAKER_11: So all right.
SPEAKER_11: So that's it for my report.
SPEAKER_11: I know that was a lot, but I just want to say I got to tell a bunch of people at the CCA
SPEAKER_11: conference and actually at ETS and at Cap2Cap about that as a group, we go last year, it
SPEAKER_11: was over 800, might've been over 900 events that we went to.
SPEAKER_11: And I'm sure that doesn't actually include all the different meetings and stuff that
SPEAKER_11: we go to.
SPEAKER_11: So when people say that SMUD is everywhere, I want to thank the board and actually a lot
SPEAKER_11: of staff are out and a lot of things do.
SPEAKER_11: So that 800 is just the board going out.
SPEAKER_11: And so we really do have a big presence in the community.
SPEAKER_11: And I think that helps boost the level of trust and our ability to work with the community.
SPEAKER_11: So thank you to the rest of the board members and to all the staff who really are, we're
SPEAKER_11: everywhere.
SPEAKER_11: So SMUD is everywhere.
SPEAKER_11: So with that, I'm close with that and we'll move on to the CEO's report.
SPEAKER_11: And I assume that you're doing that.
SPEAKER_11: Laura, go ahead.
Unknown: Yes, thank you, President Tamayo.
SPEAKER_04: I'd like to start tonight's report by recognizing May is both Asian American Pacific Islander
SPEAKER_04: Month and Military Appreciation Month.
SPEAKER_04: AAPI Month gives us an opportunity to learn about and honor the unique cultures, histories,
SPEAKER_04: and achievements of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people in our
SPEAKER_04: community.
SPEAKER_04: And during Military Appreciation Month, we want to express our deepest gratitude to the
SPEAKER_04: brave men and women who have served and continue to serve our country.
SPEAKER_04: And a big thank you to our employee resource groups, the groups reaching across international
SPEAKER_04: networks, which is our green ERG, and the Military Employee Resource Group for the work
SPEAKER_04: you do to provide inclusive representation for our employees through offering support,
SPEAKER_04: working opportunities, and a sense of community within SMUD.
SPEAKER_04: It's also Bike Month, and for our customers and employees, we're promoting the many benefits
SPEAKER_04: of cycling for the environment and for our health, including a day of free bike tune-ups
SPEAKER_04: and e-bike test rides.
SPEAKER_04: As some of you know, any reports were big on education this month at SMUD hosting three
SPEAKER_04: big marquee events for local students.
SPEAKER_04: The first was a Solar Regatta, which was a great success.
SPEAKER_04: It's the 13th time we've had this.
SPEAKER_04: So more than 500 high school and college students raced their handcrafted boats across
SPEAKER_04: Rancho Seiko Lake over two days, and thank you, President Tamayo, for attending that.
SPEAKER_04: Local students also gathered to participate in our solar car races.
SPEAKER_04: We had 400 middle school and high school students from 22 local schools have fun racing their
SPEAKER_04: own solar-powered cars.
SPEAKER_04: And big thanks to Vice President Kurth for attending that event.
SPEAKER_04: And then finally, Director Tamayo, President Tamayo, talked about the Watts cooking.
SPEAKER_04: There's actually nearly 200 local high school students competed at that event using state-of-the-art
SPEAKER_04: induction cooktops powered by some of our F-150 Lightning All-Electric trucks.
SPEAKER_04: The event gave students a chance to sharpen their cooking skills in front of renowned
SPEAKER_04: chefs while learning about the benefits of clean, energy-efficient induction cooking
SPEAKER_04: technology.
SPEAKER_04: And big thank you to all of our employees for creating these innovative activities that
SPEAKER_04: are really truly engaging the next generation of our clean energy leaders.
SPEAKER_04: And then finally, earlier this month, our Downtown Network crews and our public safety
SPEAKER_04: team hosted a special underground tour of our Downtown Network for the Sacramento Fire
SPEAKER_04: Department.
SPEAKER_04: As you know, our Downtown Network is a series of vaults and manholes that includes transformers,
SPEAKER_04: protectors, and other equipment.
SPEAKER_04: This network provides power for about 2,500 customers in downtown Sacramento.
SPEAKER_04: And by sharing how our good operates and stays reliable, we're collaborating to strengthen
SPEAKER_04: our partnerships and ensure everyone is better prepared in case of an emergency.
Unknown: And I just want to give a huge thank you to our Downtown Network team who really made
SPEAKER_04: this exclusive event possible for the Sacramento Fire Department and really showcased the critical
SPEAKER_04: safety and reliability work that we do every day.
SPEAKER_04: As for awards, we continue to receive them.
SPEAKER_04: We received a safety award from the Northwest Public Power Association and the State of
SPEAKER_04: California Reciprocity Partner of the Year from the California Department of General
SPEAKER_04: Services.
SPEAKER_04: And then our own CEO, Paul Lau, was honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from
SPEAKER_04: the Smart Electric Power Alliance.
SPEAKER_04: He is actually in D.C. this week receiving that award, which is why he's not here.
SPEAKER_04: Otherwise I'm sure he would have loved to see the students and recognize them for all
SPEAKER_04: of their artwork, but congratulations to Paul Lau for a Lifetime Achievement Award.
SPEAKER_04: And finally, tonight's video is about one of our Curtis Park Electric Store Families.
SPEAKER_04: They're part of the Neighborhood Power Partners program where residents educate their neighbors
SPEAKER_04: on the benefits of switching from gas to electricity.
SPEAKER_04: And this customer's story about going all-electric in their home highlights how SMUD programs
SPEAKER_04: help families make practical upgrades that reduce stress, improve health outcomes, lower
SPEAKER_04: costs, and move us closer to our zero carbon goal.
SPEAKER_04: Unfortunately, the family was unable to be here in person, but let's take a look at the video.
SPEAKER_08: The rebates we got from SMUD have allowed us to have the type of home and life that
SPEAKER_08: we want to leave for the environment and for safety and for quality of life.
SPEAKER_07: We have a growing family.
SPEAKER_07: We have two young kids.
SPEAKER_07: So when we were looking for our home, we were looking for a place where we could bike around
SPEAKER_07: as a family, where we could walk around.
SPEAKER_07: We did a walkthrough of this home.
SPEAKER_07: We really liked the bones that we saw, but it was also missing some really critical features.
SPEAKER_07: It didn't have heat, didn't have working hot water.
SPEAKER_07: So we knew it was going to be a really big project to take on.
SPEAKER_07: When we started looking through the wide array of SMUD rebates that were available for us,
SPEAKER_07: it started to seem a lot more doable that we could make this work financially.
SPEAKER_08: We upgraded basically everything in the house, and our electric bill is still lower than
SPEAKER_08: what we were paying for gas before.
SPEAKER_07: Our costs are less than half of what they were before, and it's everything.
SPEAKER_02: Our rebates help offset those additional costs to help customers make the decision to go
SPEAKER_02: all electric.
SPEAKER_02: The rebate process is really easy.
SPEAKER_02: It's managed by our contractors in the SMUD contractor network.
SPEAKER_08: Having the contractor be set up with SMUD already made everything so much easier.
SPEAKER_07: Also we use SMUD's shade tree program, and somebody was able to give us recommendations
SPEAKER_07: on what kind of trees would give us what we were looking for in terms of shade coverage,
SPEAKER_07: privacy.
SPEAKER_07: This really makes our house feel like a home, makes our backyard feel comfortable as our
SPEAKER_07: kids grow up.
SPEAKER_07: What I appreciate is that SMUD isn't just a utility, they're actually invested in our
SPEAKER_07: community, and that means something to me.
SPEAKER_07: I feel like they're on our side.
SPEAKER_07: What color is that bird?
SPEAKER_07: Black.
Unknown: It is on red.
SPEAKER_02: Kristin's story is such a great example of what we're trying to achieve with this program,
SPEAKER_02: and that our goals are to help customers lower their energy bills and lead them towards
SPEAKER_02: an all-electric future.
Unknown: We love spreading the word about what having all these rebates meant for us.
SPEAKER_08: We talk with friends who are interested in learning more about how they can do what we
SPEAKER_08: did and people are excited about it.
Unknown: What do you think?
SPEAKER_02: A train?
SPEAKER_07: A water?
SPEAKER_07: We talk about it with our four-year-old.
SPEAKER_07: He talks about smoggy smog, and we're like, our home doesn't have any smoggy smog, and
SPEAKER_07: that makes sense to him.
SPEAKER_07: And he's excited about that too.
SPEAKER_07: We're thankful to all of the SMUD rebates for making it possible for us to contribute
SPEAKER_07: to the broader climate solution.
SPEAKER_07: Learn about rebates for your home at smud.org slash rebates.
SPEAKER_01: Concludes my report.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: Director Herbie, you had anything?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to thank staff for a great video and also give a little credit to Kathy
SPEAKER_01: Les, who started the Curtis Park Electric Stars.
SPEAKER_01: And there's about 75 of us now in the neighborhood, and this will go a long way to bring some
SPEAKER_01: more on board.
SPEAKER_01: So thank you.
Unknown: All right.
Unknown: Thank you.
SPEAKER_11: All right.
SPEAKER_11: So do we have any summary to note for the record?
Unknown: A report to Mr. Slauternik about SMUD's ongoing evaluation of the potential to incorporate
SPEAKER_03: nuclear energy into SMUD's generation portfolio and related information.
Unknown: All right.
SPEAKER_11: I'm seeing no further business.
SPEAKER_11: This meeting is adjourned.
SPEAKER_11: Thank you very much.