Board Meeting Oct 15 2026

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SPEAKER_08: Okay, let's do the five-second warning.

Unknown: Good evening. I'll call to order the SMUD Board of Directors meeting of October 15th, 2026.

SPEAKER_04: Please join me in the Pledge of the Flag.

SPEAKER_02: One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Unknown: Thank you.

Unknown: This meeting of the SMUD Board of Directors is recorded with closed captioning.

SPEAKER_04: The recording will be cable cast on the Metro Cable Channel 14, the government, the local government affairs channel on the

SPEAKER_04: Comcast and DirecTV U-verse cable systems.

Unknown: The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14live.sackcounty.gov.

SPEAKER_04: Today's meeting replays Friday, October 16th at 6 p.m. and

SPEAKER_04: Saturday, October 17th at 1 30 p.m. on Metro Cable Channel 14.

SPEAKER_04: Once posted, the recording of this meeting can be viewed on demand at youtube.com Metro Cable 14.

Unknown: For members of the public attending in person who wish to speak at this meeting, please fill out a speaker's request form

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SPEAKER_04: At the time public comment is called, technical support staff will enable the audio for you when your name is

SPEAKER_04: announced during the public comment period. You may also submit written comments by emailing them to publiccomment at smud.org.

SPEAKER_04: Written comments will not be read into the record but will be provided to the board electronically and

SPEAKER_04: placed into the record of the meeting if received within two hours after the meeting ends.

SPEAKER_04: Members may speak to items on the agenda on which the board will take action and may also address the board on other agenda items and

SPEAKER_04: items not on the agenda but within our jurisdiction during the general comment period.

Unknown: The auditorium is equipped with a safety alarm. If the alarm sounds,

SPEAKER_04: please leave in an orderly manner via the exits to the lobby or behind the dais.

SPEAKER_04: Assemble in front of the building and wait to hear the all-clear announcement from security before reentering. Chief legal officer,

SPEAKER_04: please conduct the roll call.

Unknown: Director Rose here.

Unknown: Director Bowie-Thompson present.

SPEAKER_10: Director Fishman here.

SPEAKER_10: Director Herbert here. Vice President Kurz here.

SPEAKER_10: Director Sanborn here. President Tamayo here. All board members are present.

Unknown: Thank you. And now Director Bowie-Thompson will read our 2030 climate action. Thank you.

Unknown: For October, there are simple ways to clean energy on top of mind in your daily life. Here's a good tip.

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Unknown: Thank you.

Unknown: So item number nine on our agenda is moved to consent calendar B.

Unknown: Items three through eight will be on consent calendar A. If there are no corrections, changes, or additions,

SPEAKER_04: I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda as revised. So moved.

Unknown: Okay, that's moved by Director Herbert, seconded by Vice President Kurz. Directors, please vote.

Unknown: The agenda is approved with all directors voting yes.

Unknown: Thank you.

SPEAKER_04: Now we'll move to our committee chair reports,

SPEAKER_04: beginning with Director Sanborn, chair of the Strategic Development Committee, who will give the report of the October 6,

SPEAKER_04: 2026 meeting.

Unknown: Thank you, President Smiocco.

SPEAKER_09: The Strategic Development Committee met on Wednesday, October 6, and there was one informational item.

Unknown: The informational item was a briefing to the board on SMUD's recently completed integrated distribution resources plan.

Unknown: The analysis helps us be proactive to ensure our infrastructure is ready to support electrification and grid

SPEAKER_09: modernization efforts in line with significant load growth that's coming.

Unknown: Various scenarios were discussed and by

SPEAKER_09: integrating electric vehicle and distributed energy resources growth into our planning processes,

SPEAKER_09: we're prepared to meet the evolving needs of our customers while advancing cleaner, more reliable, and affordable energy.

SPEAKER_09: This concludes my report.

SPEAKER_04: Thank you.

Unknown: Herber, chair of the Policy Committee, will give the report of the October 7, 2026 meeting.

Unknown: Thank you, President Tamayo. The Policy Committee

SPEAKER_00: met on Wednesday, October 7th, and there were three discussion items and two informational items.

SPEAKER_00: The first discussion item was a report on the status of

SPEAKER_00: Strategic Directive 6, which is safety

SPEAKER_00: leadership for safety performance from January through June

SPEAKER_00: 2026. The report addresses safety leadership accomplishments during the first six months of the year,

SPEAKER_00: current days away restricted time,

SPEAKER_00: numbers, and safety opportunities and challenges.

SPEAKER_00: With continued reductions in severe injuries,

SPEAKER_00: declining workers' compensation costs, and strong public and contractor safety programs,

SPEAKER_00: SMUD is in compliance with

SPEAKER_00: Strategic Direction Number 6, and in alignment with our five-year strategy to achieve a zero-incident

SPEAKER_00: culture. This is Item Number 5 on tonight's consent calendar.

Unknown: The second discussion item was a report on the status of Strategic Direction

SPEAKER_00: 10, which is

SPEAKER_00: innovation, and it was the performance from June

SPEAKER_00: 2025 through July

SPEAKER_00: 2026.

SPEAKER_00: SMUD is in compliance with

SPEAKER_00: Strategic Direction Number 10, as

SPEAKER_00: demonstrated by a growing innovation

SPEAKER_00: portfolio that maintains long-term competitiveness and

SPEAKER_00: balances risk with potential

SPEAKER_00: environmental, economic, and community benefits.

SPEAKER_00: This is Item Number 6 on tonight's consent calendar.

Unknown: The third discussion item was a report on the status of Strategic Direction

SPEAKER_00: 19,

Unknown: which is diversified business and their performance from June 2025 through July

SPEAKER_00: 2026.

SPEAKER_00: SMUD is in compliance with Strategic Direction 19, as

SPEAKER_00: demonstrated by diversified business partnerships,

SPEAKER_00: positive net revenue, and

SPEAKER_00: effective use of grants to offset major capital projects.

SPEAKER_00: This is Item Number 7 on tonight's consent calendar.

Unknown: The first informational item was to allow the board the opportunity to monitor

SPEAKER_00: existing policies.

SPEAKER_00: Governance Process 8, which deals with board committee principles.

SPEAKER_00: Governance Process 10, which deals with board training and orientation.

SPEAKER_00: Governance Process 12,

SPEAKER_00: which deals with board compensation and benefits.

SPEAKER_00: Governance Process

SPEAKER_00: 15, which deals with board travel and training reimbursement.

SPEAKER_00: The second informational item was a review of the board's work plan.

SPEAKER_00: This concludes my report.

Unknown: Thank you, Director Herber. Now Director Rose,

Unknown: Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, will give the report of the October 13, 2026 meeting.

Unknown: All right, thank you. So yes, we met on October 13th.

SPEAKER_07: There were two discussion items and three informational items.

SPEAKER_07: The first discussion item was to increase our contract with Androids Hydro Corporation for the Camino Generator 1

SPEAKER_07: rehabilitation project to approximately 13.97 million dollars.

SPEAKER_07: The Camino Powerhouse is our hydroelectric generating plant that is nearing the end of its service life.

SPEAKER_07: The extra cost comes from tariff impacts, design and extra storage needed to make sure the carbon-free generation asset will be reliable for the

SPEAKER_07: next 40 years. This is Item Number 8 on tonight's consent calendar.

SPEAKER_07: The second discussion item was authorization for the CEO and general manager to negotiate and award a contract to

SPEAKER_07: International Business Machines Corporation, IBM, for the SAP S4 HANA implementation services

SPEAKER_07: for the period of November 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2029.

SPEAKER_07: The company was selected as a system integrator to help lead the critical transition and since for a successful upgrade of our

SPEAKER_07: systems. This has been moved to consent calendar item B.

Unknown: The first informational item was provide the board with a preview of SMUD's

SPEAKER_07: 2027 proposed budget. The priorities driving the budget include infrastructure investment, clean energy investment,

SPEAKER_07: customer service and reliability. Our prudent financial strategies supports our strategic investments, ensuring that rates remain stable for our

SPEAKER_07: customers. The board will hear the full item in November and vote for the full budget into December 10th board meeting.

SPEAKER_07: The second informational item was provide the board with SMUD's

SPEAKER_07: financial results from the eight month period ending August 21st, 2026 and a summary of our

SPEAKER_07: current power supply to cost. We reported a positive year-to-date net position of 280 million dollars, which is the head of budget.

SPEAKER_07: This includes customer revenues, commodity expenses and other operating expenses.

SPEAKER_07: And then the third informational item was report from the internal services on the status of our recommendations for the third quarter of

SPEAKER_07: 2026. That concludes the report. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07: Thank you.

Unknown: Chair of the energy resources and customer services committee will give the report of the October 14th,

SPEAKER_04: 2026 meeting.

Unknown: Thank you. The energy resources and

SPEAKER_12: customer service committee met on the 14th as discussed if we had one

SPEAKER_12: informational and one discussion item. The informational item was to kick off SMUD's

SPEAKER_12: 2627 integrated resource plan also known as the IRP

Unknown: public process. Our new IRP will need to be filed with the California Energy Commission by September

SPEAKER_12: 2027. The board was presented with objectives, filing requirements and history of SMUD IRPs, key

SPEAKER_12: focuses and the board and community outreach process and schedule. The IRP evaluates pass to meet our customers demand and shares insight into

SPEAKER_12: affordability impacts and various pass. It also informs policy changes to the strategic directive 9,

SPEAKER_12: which is resource planning and needs to be updated periodically as conditions change.

Unknown: The discussion item was to consider adopting the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA,

SPEAKER_12: initial study mitigated negative decoration for the Jackson bulk substation project as well as the mitigation monitoring and reporting program and

SPEAKER_12: improving the project.

Unknown: The proposed project located on 44 acres at Jackson and Excelsior roads involves approximately six miles of overhead lines to serve planned development

SPEAKER_12: along the Jackson corridor. This is item number 11 on tonight's discussion calendar. This concludes my report.

Unknown: Comments from the public on consent calendar A or consent calendar B. I don't have any cards for that.

SPEAKER_04: Do we have any other requests to comment?

Unknown: We do not. Thank you. So

SPEAKER_04: consent calendar A item number three is to approve board compensate board member compensation

SPEAKER_04: for service rendered at the request of the board for the period of September 16th

SPEAKER_04: 2026 through October 15th

SPEAKER_04: 2026 item number four is the approval of the minutes of the meeting of September 17th 2026

SPEAKER_04: items number five through seven were reviewed at the policy committee of October 7th

SPEAKER_04: 2026 item number eight was reviewed at the finance and audit committee of

SPEAKER_04: October 13th 2026 if there are no corrections changes or additions

SPEAKER_04: I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar a

Unknown: Seconder moved

SPEAKER_04: Director Bowie Thompson directors, please vote

Unknown: consent calendar a is approved with all directors voting. Yes. Thank you very much

SPEAKER_04: At this time I'll turn the meeting over to vice president kirth to address consent calendar

SPEAKER_04: B I will not be participating in the decision on this item as I own

SPEAKER_04: stock in IBM which constitutes a conflict of interest so

Unknown: Thank You president tomorrow

Unknown: Okay, thank you

SPEAKER_12: Rules are we have to wait for him to leave the room very important. So okay

SPEAKER_08: So item number nine was reviewed at the finance and audit committee meeting of October 13th

SPEAKER_08: 2026 and it pertains to a contract with the International business machine corporation for the SAP s for Hana. I'm sorry SAP s for Hana

SPEAKER_08: Implementation program this one gives me actually particular pleasure because I

SPEAKER_08: Formally worked for IBM many years ago and the place has really never been the same since I left and so I'm happy to

SPEAKER_08: Happy to help him out here. Are you sure you don't have to leave the room? No

SPEAKER_08: I checked with the general counsel and she said no 46 years is beyond the statute. Okay

Unknown: It's been a while. So with that if there are no corrections changes or additions

SPEAKER_08: I'll entertain a motion to approve consent calendar B. So move second. Okay, we have a motion fishman second Herber

SPEAKER_08: directors, please vote

Unknown: Consent calendar B is approved with director tomorrow absent. Okay. Thank you very much. Oh

Unknown: Yeah, I'm better to interrupt his nap. Oh wait, he's back. Okay. Thank you

Unknown: All right now that we've dispatched with that a board of coo I'll return to

SPEAKER_04: Agenda

SPEAKER_04: Item number 11 this is our discussion calendar

SPEAKER_04: Item number 11 is to adopt the California Environmental Quality Act

SPEAKER_04: or CEQA

SPEAKER_04: Mitigated negative negative declaration for the Jackson

SPEAKER_04: bulk substation project

SPEAKER_04: adopt the mitigation monitoring and reporting program and approve the project and our presenter is

SPEAKER_04: Emily bikini director of safety environmental and real estate services

SPEAKER_04: My name is Emily bikini and I'm the director of safety environmental and real estate and I am here tonight to request that the board adopt the

SPEAKER_05: CEQA mitigated negative declaration for the Jackson bulk substation project along with adopting the mitigation monitoring and reporting program and approving the project

SPEAKER_05: The Jackson bulk substation project is an approximately 18 acre

Unknown: The Jackson bulk substation project is an approximately 18 acre

SPEAKER_05: bulk substation that will be constructed on a 44 acre parcel on the

SPEAKER_05: Southeast corner of the intersection of Jackson and Excelsior roads in Eastern Sacramento County

Unknown: It would provide electrical service for commercial and residential customers that will be

SPEAKER_05: Developed along the Jackson Highway corridor. There is a large master plan that the county recently

SPEAKER_05: Approved the project also includes construction of new or modified overhead power lines

SPEAKER_05: approximately six miles in total length and

SPEAKER_05: a 200 foot setback from the roadways

SPEAKER_05: Any acreage that's not used for substation construction will be graded for drainage improvements

SPEAKER_05: And then we will also maintain our existing soil storage program, which is located on the southern portion of the property

Unknown: An initial study mitigated negative declaration was the environmental document prepared for this project

Unknown: We found that six environmental areas required or could have potentially significant

Unknown: potentially significant impacts which required mitigation to reduce those impacts to a less than significant level

Unknown: These impacts are construction related and the mitigation measures are standard mitigation measures that we see in most of our projects

SPEAKER_05: Air quality measures like watering down disturbed soil

SPEAKER_05: Pre-construction surveys all very standard mitigation measures

Unknown: We followed our normal public review process

SPEAKER_05: Published the draft is M&D in early May and had a 30-day public review period

Unknown: The notice of that document was published in the Sacramento Bee and mailed out to landowners that lived in proximity of our project components

Unknown: The document was published on at smud org and we also provided hard copies at our customer service center and East Campus

SPEAKER_05: Operation Center we had a virtual public meeting in the middle of the month and we had one member of the public attend and

Unknown: Then the final document was posted on our website on October 5th

Unknown: During our review process we received five comment letters the comments from Sacramento area sewer district and the Central Valley flood

SPEAKER_05: Protection Board

SPEAKER_05: Did not raise any environmental issues or concerns?

SPEAKER_05: Regarding the adequacy accuracy or completeness of our environmental document

Unknown: the letters that we received from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and

SPEAKER_05: Defenders of wildlife provided comments and recommendations on mitigation measures in the biological resources section

Unknown: These comments did not change the conclusions that were presented in the document

SPEAKER_05: Although we did make some revisions to the mitigation measures in the final is M&D and

Unknown: Then the last letter was from Wilton Rancher ea

SPEAKER_05: They offered comments and recommendations on our mitigation measures for both the biological resources section and the tribal cultural resources section

Unknown: These comments also did not change the conclusions that were presented in the is M&D

SPEAKER_05: And we did make some revisions to the measures

SPEAKER_05: In in response to those comments

Unknown: We

SPEAKER_05: Followed our standard AB 52 tribal consultation process Wilton Rancher ea was the only tribe that requested consultation for this process project

Unknown: we had regular meetings with them throughout the project timeline and

SPEAKER_05: communicated over email

SPEAKER_05: They were able to participate in the pedestrian survey that we conducted

Unknown: Of the site and they provided input on our tribal cultural resources section and our mitigation measures

Unknown: That being said our AB 52 consultation process was closed in late September without reaching mutual agreement

Unknown: And the area of disagreement was around the monitoring that would be done during construction activities

Unknown: We do value our partnership with Wilton Rancher ea and remain committed to continue working respectively and collaboratively with them on this and future

SPEAKER_05: Projects and last night we heard from the board the request that we align monitoring activities with the major construction activities

SPEAKER_05: When those are occurring on site and so we'll continue to work with Wilton

Unknown: And our substation team to ensure that tribal monitoring occurs during major ground disturbing activities

Unknown: And with that I'd request that the board again adopt our CEQA initial study mitigated negative declaration

Unknown: For the Jackson-Bolt substation project adopt our mitigation monitoring and reporting program and approve the project

Unknown: I'm gonna do this a little differently

Unknown: There's one member of the public that wants to speak and I wanted to get their input before we have our discussion

SPEAKER_04: But if there are any just

Unknown: Questions or clarifications the board members have for Emily

Unknown: Okay, so we'll move forward with our

SPEAKER_04: Request for public comment. It's Skyler Henry and if you just the Skyler Henry here, I

Unknown: Think I actually just saw him leave

Unknown: All right, well if he comes back before we're done with this then we'll

SPEAKER_04: Let him speak so all right, so let's move

SPEAKER_04: forward with

Unknown: board discussion

Unknown: director Sanborn

Unknown: Thank you, and thank you Emily for

SPEAKER_09: Commenting on the discussion that we had last night

SPEAKER_09: Because several of us

SPEAKER_09: I know have friends that are with the Wilton Rancheria and I know I've spoken with them and they really would appreciate

SPEAKER_09: Just some consideration for the for the groundwork, so I really appreciate the staffs willing to do that

SPEAKER_09: Thank you, and this is an important project and you've

SPEAKER_09: Protected this mindset talk and all the good things so thank you for that and I'll be supporting this this item. Thank you

Unknown: director herber

Unknown: Yes, I just also want to say thank you I know we had quite a big discussion about

SPEAKER_00: the monitoring and

SPEAKER_00: you know our Native Americans have been great friends in terms of

SPEAKER_00: Allowing us to use their land and so I'm glad that we were able to talk through

SPEAKER_00: The fact that there can be some flexibility

SPEAKER_00: with what smud does and when

SPEAKER_00: Dirt is being moved when it's most likely to find something

SPEAKER_00: They can be there, so thank you to you and staff for being flexible

Unknown: Anybody else

SPEAKER_04: Just so that the viewing public understands that

SPEAKER_12: That we have done the monitoring correct in the past when given more specific information and the current information that we were given

SPEAKER_12: This time it was a 300 mile

Unknown: Sphere of influence correct and to people may not realize this mud territory is 900 square miles, so it's would be quite vast

SPEAKER_12: To be able to follow their guidelines

SPEAKER_12: I just wanted to do to kind of reiterate where we when we have been given more specific information

SPEAKER_12: So it's not like we never do this right so if you want to give some examples of when we've been given very specific

SPEAKER_12: Information where we have done the monitoring because 18 months of five

Unknown: day of week monitoring for an area that

SPEAKER_12: Was given as a quite large swath is

SPEAKER_12: Quite large, but we have in the past so if you could shed light on when we have agreed with full-time monitoring

Unknown: Sure, thank you. Thank you for that question

SPEAKER_05: we work regularly with tribes on projects here in Sacramento County and and

Unknown: for our facilities outside account of Sacramento County and

SPEAKER_05: during that consultation process

SPEAKER_05: We look to understand what resources have the potential to be impacted by the project based off of what we know is

SPEAKER_05: Occurs on site or is likely to occur on site based off of information

SPEAKER_05: from

Unknown: Previous surveys from historical records from oral histories and there are projects in the past where we've known

SPEAKER_05: Resources were present and we had full-time monitoring

Unknown: in this case the

Unknown: Our conversations with Wilton did not indicate that there were

Unknown: Any resources specific to our site in or around in that project vicinity as you mentioned they referred to a 300

SPEAKER_05: tribal cultural a 300 square mile tribal cultural landscape

Unknown: along with using the Jackson corridor as a travel corridor and

SPEAKER_05: A village site that was about 10 miles from our site

Unknown: typically that

SPEAKER_05: As part of our environmental review process is an indication that there's not a strong likelihood

SPEAKER_05: That resources would be present and we allow for spot monitoring in this case

SPEAKER_05: We're at the board's request. We're going to take a different approach and have

SPEAKER_05: Monitoring there during major ground disturbance activities

Unknown: All right, so one thing I wanted to make sure that

Unknown: The public gets a

SPEAKER_04: description of what we mean by spot monitoring because that was already in there and that's what's going to be

SPEAKER_04: Sort of more focus. So could you please give a description of what we mean by spot monitoring? Yes

SPEAKER_05: Thank you for that question spot monitoring is typically being on site two or three days a week for this project

SPEAKER_05: We were looking at two days a week for four hours a day

SPEAKER_05: And that again is the standard mitigation measure we use

SPEAKER_05: When we don't know or don't have any information around the likelihood of tribal culture resources being on site

Unknown: We know the potential is always there anytime we move soil to find resources

SPEAKER_05: But in this case at that that risk was very low based off of the information we had

Unknown: Thank you, so if there's no further discussions discussion

Unknown: I'll entertain a motion. Oh first. Let me check is Skyler Henry here

Unknown: Okay, and no other requests for comment I do not see any hands now

Unknown: All right. So there's no further discussion. I'll entertain a motion to approve discussion

Unknown: Calendar item number 11. I'll move to approve item 11

Unknown: Second. Okay, so that's moved by director Sanborn seconded by director Fishman directors, please vote

Unknown: The discussion calendar is approved with all directors voting yes

SPEAKER_04: So and this time we allow the public to comment on items not on the agenda but within our jurisdiction

SPEAKER_04: I do have one card from

Unknown: Scott slaughter back

SPEAKER_04: So if you want to come up to the mic and I believe you know the the drill so

Unknown: True

SPEAKER_06: Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I did attend the college gland

SPEAKER_06: Community meeting on the 8th of October along with mr. Fishman and

SPEAKER_06: Thankfully, it's about 20 degrees cooler in here than that night. It was like 100 degrees in there

SPEAKER_06: Sweating profusely even more than my nerves would dictate

SPEAKER_06: But anyway, I was interested and pleased that mr. Fishman

SPEAKER_06: brought up the fact that

SPEAKER_06: The this much vaulted

SPEAKER_06: Carbon zero by 2030 is just basically pie in the sky smoking mirrors

SPEAKER_06: Situation he mentioned that there's no way you're gonna meet that ambitious goal and I was gratified to hear that

Unknown: He was honest about that. I know I've spoken in the past about transparency

SPEAKER_06: and that's one area that I've been looking deeply into and

SPEAKER_06: Prior to going to that meeting I got onto your website and it's got a really cute little graph in there showing

SPEAKER_06: the minute-by-minute

SPEAKER_06: source of energy that smudge uses and

SPEAKER_06: you know, it looks at

SPEAKER_06: renewables large hydro this kind of thing and it was a little dismane to find out that at

Unknown: 12 o'clock on October 8th

Unknown: bright sunny day

SPEAKER_06: 71 percent of smuds energy is produced by your gas turbine situation and we've got three years to get to 2030 and

SPEAKER_06: There's just it's just unrealistic for anything like that to

SPEAKER_06: to be

SPEAKER_06: Supplanted with renewables, which is the supposed goal of that smud board has come up with

SPEAKER_06: The other thing of course, I'm very interested in is the bird kill that's occurring on

SPEAKER_06: smuds Solano four and five

SPEAKER_06: This is an area that is

SPEAKER_06: adjacent to the largest concentration of Golden Eagle

SPEAKER_06: nastiness in the country not just in California and

SPEAKER_06: a

Unknown: Number of Golden Eagles have been killed by these turbines

SPEAKER_06: 40 40 50

Unknown: One biologist said that the rate of the birdkill is

SPEAKER_06: So great that it is not able to keep up with a natural reproduction of the Golden Eagles

SPEAKER_06: Ie you're killing off more than can be

SPEAKER_06: naturally generated and

SPEAKER_06: I don't like that. There's got to be other ways of getting power and

SPEAKER_06: I've talked about this nuclear is something that the board really has to be

SPEAKER_06: I think guaranteeing

SPEAKER_06: purchase of nuclear power plant to help

Unknown: Help the nuclear industry grow it doesn't have to be in California can be out of state

SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'd just like to clarify that I did not refer to our zero carbon plant as pie in the sky

Unknown: I did indicate that it was unlikely we were going to get there by 2030 and that we were

SPEAKER_03: Pivoting to other ways to try to achieve that goal as soon as quick as soon as possible

SPEAKER_03: But that we still have that zero carbon goal, and I believe we can get there eventually

SPEAKER_03: For a lot of reasons laid out at several recent meetings

SPEAKER_03: It's going to take us a little longer than we had anticipated, but we're going to continue working towards that goal

SPEAKER_03: Thank you. Do we have any other requests for comment? I

Unknown: Don't say any hands. No we don't

Unknown: Okay

Unknown: All right

SPEAKER_04: Thank you very much

SPEAKER_04: So at this point in the agenda we provide the directors an opportunity to report on smut activity

SPEAKER_04: We will begin with a report from director Rose and Ward one and continue in ward order with the president's report as the final item

Unknown: All right

SPEAKER_07: Thank you president tomorrow. I

SPEAKER_07: Spoke a lot at the committee meetings the past two weeks

SPEAKER_07: About a number of these different topics. I know it's been a hot topic in the news

SPEAKER_07: The data center AI our integrated resource plan our 2030 goal. This is not the appropriate moment

SPEAKER_07: So I won't repeat those but if anybody is curious to learn more

SPEAKER_07: I would encourage them to go and watch and listen to the recordings of our committee meetings the last the last week and a half

SPEAKER_07: as well

SPEAKER_07: And then just I mentioned during the committee report

SPEAKER_07: We're doing the hydro generation rewind and we put up some really cool photos in the staff presentation about what what that looks like

SPEAKER_07: Because I think it's it's particularly interesting to see like a 30 or 40 foot

SPEAKER_07: Take three or four story high generator getting taking completely apart and reroute rewound. It's it's pretty cool stuff

SPEAKER_07: But with that in terms of my actual travel and service

SPEAKER_07: I was out for the Folsom community services day with the with the smud staff bright and early and we did a tree planting out in

SPEAKER_07: Old Folsom and put an enormous pile of mulch

SPEAKER_07: All over the all over the parking area as well. It looked a lot better after the fact

SPEAKER_07: I just want to thank all of this mud staff for volunteering their

SPEAKER_07: Weekend morning to go do that. I went out to the NCPA the Northern California Power Agency

SPEAKER_07: Annual conference

SPEAKER_07: They always do a really a nice like day and a half event some of the things I thought were at least worth mentioning

SPEAKER_07: The Energy Commission was there see if Agunda they talked about

SPEAKER_07: Their latest modeling work and how they look at data centers in their energy demand

SPEAKER_07: Forecast and then they had a whole process where they talked about going from an inquiry

SPEAKER_07: To an application to an actual agreement in how they use those different different probabilities based on how that how you

SPEAKER_07: Went from inquiries all the way to a real application. So I thought that was particularly

SPEAKER_07: interesting and timely

SPEAKER_07: NERC was there they had some interesting

SPEAKER_07: Input on different types of AI and and how it's used and how they're seeing it used in in the industry

SPEAKER_07: They also had some really cool statistical graphs

SPEAKER_07: They put up that that were doing different deviations from the mean that several of us a geeked out on

SPEAKER_07: as being pretty cool and then

SPEAKER_07: The other news from the Cal ISO

SPEAKER_07: Was talking about the regional market the e-damn there had been some big news in how that market is progressing with with

SPEAKER_07: some interest in Bonneville Power BPA

SPEAKER_07: And potentially having a pathway that joined that greater mark and then we also heard from their

SPEAKER_07: Administrator as well and then they had a futurist who?

Unknown: Was saying things who knows of any of it will come true. I know the future so I've seen that previous conferences

SPEAKER_07: Did not predict any of the AI or large data centers or a lot of what's happened

SPEAKER_07: But take it for what it worth. They always have a beautiful slide deck

SPEAKER_07: And what that's what that was the conference the only other thing I wanted to mention

SPEAKER_07: I got out to the clean air partnership 40th anniversary luncheon. There were several other board members there

SPEAKER_07: This is the group I've been going to their so the clean air partnership

SPEAKER_07: Well before I was ever on elected to the SMUD board which which is going to be ten years in a couple weeks here

SPEAKER_07: But

SPEAKER_07: I just wanted to point out they gave a lovely air champion award to our retired CEO Paul

SPEAKER_07: Wow, so it was good to see Paul and he looked good and he's been relaxed

SPEAKER_07: He's been traveling and enjoying his retirement

SPEAKER_07: So I appreciate that opportunity to see him

SPEAKER_07: Other than that, I think I think the others will cover anything else I got to I'll turn it back over to you

SPEAKER_07: And I apologize for the length of my report longer than usual. Thanks

SPEAKER_07: Booey Thompson. Thank you. I had the opportunity

SPEAKER_12: To attend and speak at various conferences in September

SPEAKER_12: I was invited to speak at the utility 2030 spark conference that brought together

SPEAKER_12: utilities that have

SPEAKER_12: similar goals as SMUD in terms of a clean energy future and I spoke on the future of leadership

SPEAKER_12: Panel there and I was able to mix and mingle and spend several days with other like-minded utilities on the 17th

SPEAKER_12: Also, I wanted to thank our SMUD teams and staff for supporting me. I received

SPEAKER_12: The one of the exceptional women of color awards. We have several awardees

SPEAKER_12: Previous awardees from SMUD from Sacramento Cultural Hub

SPEAKER_12: So I think that staff who nominated me and who continue to support diverse women in business

SPEAKER_12: I also had the opportunity to attend

Unknown: An event sponsored by the German Marshall

SPEAKER_12: Fellowship organization. I was honored with the German Marshall Fellowship. It's one of 30 granted to Americans per year

SPEAKER_12: It was a gift by the country of Germany to thank the United States for the Marshall Plan

SPEAKER_12: and one of the topics of the conference was actually

SPEAKER_12: focusing more on

SPEAKER_12: Growth of local and state leaders the things that they can do within their communities

SPEAKER_12: So it was a really good timing since Germany is going through quite the energy transition themselves

Unknown: Away from nuclear to more renewables and it's been quite a challenge

SPEAKER_12: So it was nice to meet with leaders from across the world both from a local level

SPEAKER_12: some from the European Union and other countries that are dealing with our

SPEAKER_12: energy issues that we have here at home

SPEAKER_12: I was able to participate in the seventh annual capital golf challenge

SPEAKER_12: This is put on by mayor Kevin McCarty and supervisor Patrick Kennedy

SPEAKER_12: It's a wonderful fun day to support the Morton Golf Foundation and Hiram Johnson High School

Unknown: For the first time in many many years the county team won the golf challenge, which I'm very proud of since the city

Unknown: Kills us every year since they have former professional athletes like a Raiders star playing on their team

SPEAKER_12: So I was very happy to bring home the win for us County folks

SPEAKER_12: I also was able to speak at the ribbon cutting at safety bill for weave

SPEAKER_12: So weave is an organization that supports women

SPEAKER_12: Escaping domestic violence and it was a great demonstration as to how people can get support and help they need

SPEAKER_12: Because oftentimes people don't know where they can churn so it was nice to be able to speak there

SPEAKER_12: I was able to represent smud with several of our board members at the Capitol air show this year

SPEAKER_12: It's one of my favorite events. It's one of the largest drawing events in my ward over 140,000 people passed those gates over two days

SPEAKER_12: I was proud to support my fiance squadron, which is the u2 and t38 squadron

SPEAKER_12: It was the first ever at the Capitol air show so proud to support him and his team there and

SPEAKER_12: I just wanted to say again. Thank you. We have a lot of smud staff that support the air show

SPEAKER_12: It's a it's a big event and I loved seeing the ride-and-drive there also to help people pick the right Evie

SPEAKER_12: That's how I figured out how to pick my own Evie back in the day

SPEAKER_12: And I think it's a great opportunity for people that typically wouldn't be gravitating towards electric vehicles at these sort of events

SPEAKER_12: To see all the various options that they have. Thank you. I

Unknown: Think I'm up I

Unknown: Want to start out talking about the American River River Parkway because I am on the American River Parkway

SPEAKER_03: Association and I did four things over the last couple of weeks associated with that on

SPEAKER_03: September 19th, I participated in the great American River cleanup

SPEAKER_03: There was a bunch of smud folks out there as well a bunch of team members from sack RT to

SPEAKER_03: We picked up tons of trash at various locations up and down the Parkway

SPEAKER_03: I was at the Watt Avenue area and police report that

SPEAKER_03: There was plenty of stuff to pick up but not as much as I might have thought not as much as I've seen there

SPEAKER_03: In past years, so it was it was better than I thought it was going to be the next day the 20th

SPEAKER_03: I got to say a few words at the save the American River Association sixth annual family fall festival

SPEAKER_03: It was really fun events and great exhibits and good people out there in in Rancho Cordova

SPEAKER_03: right on the banks of the river I

SPEAKER_03: Also attended the Fe on Nature Center's annual gala and fundraiser Fe on Nature Center wonderful resource right on the river and

SPEAKER_03: And right on the Parkway out at Ansel Hoffman Park

SPEAKER_03: So that was fun and helped them raise a few bucks and then on the on October 9th this last Friday

SPEAKER_03: I was the guest barista at the American River Parkway Foundation's Parkway pick-me-up coffee cart

SPEAKER_03: So if you're ever out there along the William Pond Recreation area

SPEAKER_03: Every weekday from 9 to noon stop and get a cup of coffee and support the Parkway

SPEAKER_03: That's that's a it's a just a fun thing to do out there

SPEAKER_03: Couple of other events I was at noche Latina at the Sac Republic FC game a couple of nights ago

SPEAKER_03: They tied one more goal would have would have put them over, but it was still a fun event

SPEAKER_03: Let's see

Unknown: Well when my world's collide

SPEAKER_03: smud sponsored the power in Road Association field trip to sack RT's light rail maintenance facility a couple of weeks ago

SPEAKER_03: So I got to wear both of my hats at the same time my day job is with sack RT

SPEAKER_03: And that was just a lot of fun to get to do that and

Unknown: Yeah, when when my world's collide there's a lot more here, but I'll stop and turn it over to director Herber. I believe

Unknown: Yes, thank you

SPEAKER_00: This was a month that was a little less active because I took a two-week vacation

SPEAKER_00: Which was a lot of fun?

SPEAKER_00: But before I took off I had the privilege of speaking at the Galt Chamber of Commerce

SPEAKER_00: talking about smuds program to

SPEAKER_00: solicit businesses to be able to provide services for smud and

SPEAKER_00: we have

SPEAKER_00: we have over

SPEAKER_00: 200 businesses that are registered and there were several people there who registered

SPEAKER_00: Jim Alves was in the room and Jim is a

SPEAKER_00: Galt

SPEAKER_00: Resident well he grew up in Galt and so they know him well and love him and

SPEAKER_00: so I want to thank him for all his support and also

SPEAKER_00: Kat Siebold who is the executive director of the Galt Chamber it was a really fun event and

SPEAKER_00: I'm glad that we were able to get a few more businesses

SPEAKER_00: into our program

SPEAKER_00: then I had the

SPEAKER_00: opportunity to meet with Matthew

SPEAKER_00: Romesa of

SPEAKER_00: Casa and Casa stands for

SPEAKER_00: court appointed special advocates they actually help young people who are

SPEAKER_00: They're not homeless, but they're

SPEAKER_00: in the system

SPEAKER_00: and being taken care of by other families because they can't be in their homes and

SPEAKER_00: he shared with me the work that they do and

SPEAKER_00: as very interested in

SPEAKER_00: partnering with smud and

SPEAKER_00: Then last but not least

SPEAKER_00: I went to the impact 100

SPEAKER_00: greater Sacramento

SPEAKER_00: annual celebration and

SPEAKER_00: they gave out

SPEAKER_00: five awards, I'm not sure if many of you know but impact 100 is

SPEAKER_00: an organization that

SPEAKER_00: women join and commit to giving a

SPEAKER_00: thousand dollars to a grant to grant recipients and

SPEAKER_00: Non-profits from all over can apply for it and then

SPEAKER_00: They go through the process of rating the grants

SPEAKER_00: visiting the different places and then awarding to the different

SPEAKER_00: Non-profits that were most outstanding

SPEAKER_00: And I'm really pleased to say that Casa got one of those grants and the Cache Creek Conservancy

SPEAKER_00: Three strands global the Sacramento literacy

SPEAKER_00: Foundation and the B Street theater all five of them received a hundred thousand dollars and so

SPEAKER_00: It's really phenomenal that they can help these organizations

SPEAKER_00: smud was a sponsor for the event and I was happy to be there with

SPEAKER_00: Rhonda Staley Brooks and it just is a

SPEAKER_00: Phenomenal thing to see how

SPEAKER_00: These different groups play such a large role in our communities. So

SPEAKER_00: With that I'll just say one other thing. It is true that the data centers and

SPEAKER_00: AI have been a big topic

SPEAKER_00: We've seen several stories

SPEAKER_00: In the paper and in the abridged

SPEAKER_00: news

SPEAKER_00: Email folks and I want you all to know that smud is going to be

SPEAKER_00: adopting a policy on November 11th

SPEAKER_00: around

SPEAKER_00: large loads and

SPEAKER_00: We hope that those of you who are

SPEAKER_00: Concerned about data centers will come to that

SPEAKER_00: Committee meeting so that you'll be able to see what smud will be doing and what our role

SPEAKER_00: Is in that process? So with that I'll turn it back to you

Unknown: All right, well we'll go in dis order rather than

SPEAKER_04: Order go ahead duck director Sanborn. Thank you

SPEAKER_09: so I

SPEAKER_09: Was lucky to attend the Carmichael Parks Foundation dinner in the park and it's a fundraiser so we can help

Unknown: Kids that can't afford to go to the park programs, especially in the summer have a place to go

SPEAKER_09: it was a beautiful evening outside under the oak trees and

SPEAKER_09: We had a full smud contingent there. So thanks to all the smud stuff that made it. It was a wonderful beautiful evening

SPEAKER_09: I did have to miss I heels hard hats and I heels but it was a wonderful event and I was glad to be there

Unknown: I was happy to join dr. Fishman at the Save the American River

SPEAKER_09: Association family fall festival where kids were learning all about the animals in the parkway and

SPEAKER_09: They were showing us about some of the land that they're trying to protect

SPEAKER_09: They're actually trying to raise money to protect the last open space on the American River

SPEAKER_09: It was quite impressive actually being out there to see it and I wish them all the best in raising that money

Unknown: And then I spent a couple

SPEAKER_09: events in

SPEAKER_09: North Highlands in my ward which I spoke to the Rotary Club the Rotary Club of Foothill Highlands

SPEAKER_09: And it was wonderful to reconnect with them. I hadn't seen them in a few years

SPEAKER_09: They're doing great work up there for kids in the community and also the North Highlands community leaders meeting talking about actually that was

SPEAKER_09: Right before they had the North Highlands celebrate North Highlands event, which I heard went off very very well

SPEAKER_09: I helped sponsor it, but I couldn't be there unfortunately, so that was great to see them as well

SPEAKER_09: And then on the second of just October

SPEAKER_09: I was thrilled to be at the onyx awards dinner at the Hyatt and

Unknown: The Observer newspaper puts this on and it was really an incredible evening of celebrating

SPEAKER_09: Black leaders in this community who are doing amazing work

SPEAKER_09: There were so many I think Gary may from my alma mater UC Davis

Unknown: I know Garrett from Rancho City Council. He won an award. There were many

SPEAKER_09: very deserving people Jeanine Barra

SPEAKER_09: Ami Barra's wife who's a doctor and runs well space

Unknown: very deserving people doing really good work in the community and it was a wonderful evening and then I

Unknown: did do a radio interview with my

Unknown: Friend Chris Evans and his wife Rebecca. He runs sack navigators and sack navigators actually goes and finds people and

SPEAKER_09: And in shelters and gives them the opportunity to get out get a job

Unknown: help clean up the community and go get anger management classes or whatever it is they need to get on their feet and

SPEAKER_09: He started a podcast and he asked me to be the tenth person to speak on his podcast

SPEAKER_09: It's called hard truths and real stories and the reason he was interested in interviewing me is probably not about energy

SPEAKER_09: But it was mostly because my mother had schizophrenia

SPEAKER_09: so I had a whole entire life experience about what it's like to live with someone who's very very sick and

SPEAKER_09: And so if you're interested in that, you know that he deals with a lot of people with those challenges

SPEAKER_09: And he's doing amazing work of the Angels he and his wife Rebecca

SPEAKER_09: So if you haven't heard of them or that podcast, I encourage you to find it

SPEAKER_09: and

SPEAKER_09: Support what they do. It's incredible

Unknown: And I think the last but not least was the big brothers big sisters of the greater Sacramento area

SPEAKER_09: a masquerade gala

SPEAKER_09: Celebration for the one of the programs that I was in in my 30s and I was actually matched with my little

Unknown: by miss Rhonda Staley Brooks and

SPEAKER_09: I have I was just shocked that she was working here when when I got elected

SPEAKER_09: And I got to see her in this space and see how she's grown and developed in this job as well, but Rhonda congratulations

SPEAKER_09: She won the legacy award

Unknown: She's made huge changes in many many young people's lives and families lives

SPEAKER_09: And we thank you for all that you've done for the community in so many ways. This just being one of them

SPEAKER_09: So glad to celebrate you

Unknown: About that I will just wish one final thing happy Halloween and just remind people

SPEAKER_09: Fake cobwebs are plastic and they entangle wildlife what owls hummingbirds birds, please don't put it outside

SPEAKER_09: Keep it inside or check it frequently to make sure little things are not being hooked up in it. Thank you very much

Unknown: Vice president kirth, thank you

SPEAKER_08: There's four quick items to mention tonight and the first was really quite the event with United Way

SPEAKER_08: California Capital Region women unite innovate and ignite where one of the featured speakers was our very own

SPEAKER_08: Laura Angway, so it was a great event to hear about

Unknown: What the United Way is doing particularly to help young people

SPEAKER_08: Foster youths make it through college. So it's really a nice very nice event

SPEAKER_08: Of course attended the Capitol air show where we got to see really

Unknown: Long lines waiting to drive the smud cars was really one of the I have to admit

SPEAKER_08: Particular surprises for me. I didn't even know we were gonna be there

SPEAKER_08: And so it was wonderful to see that and see all the people driving the cars a

Unknown: couple of smaller events attended the taste of North Sacramento event where the North Sacramento community comes together to

Unknown: Raise money for the local library, which is soon to open along Del Paso Boulevard will be a

Unknown: long overdue replacement of the library there in the North Sac community and then last but not least and I was

SPEAKER_08: filling in for

Unknown: one of my colleagues here on the board at the kasoom this community services district Elk Grove

SPEAKER_08: Giant pumpkin festival and so I have to say I didn't know that the gourds could be that big

Unknown: It was enormous. The winner was about

SPEAKER_08: 2100 pounds maybe a little bit more and

Unknown: The other thing that was surprising to me is they have an entire

SPEAKER_08: genealogical tree

SPEAKER_08: they know the grandparents of the seeds that and the parents of the seeds and all the other seeds in the branch that

SPEAKER_08: created these winning pumpkins and

SPEAKER_08: Watermelons and

SPEAKER_08: various sorts of gourds and

SPEAKER_08: Basically any sort of vine based plant you can grow in a garden was there and the competition was

Unknown: Intense. I had no idea the winner gets ten thousand dollar prize and

SPEAKER_08: Immediately sells the pumpkin to somebody who wants a huge decoration for the holidays and then sells all the seeds

SPEAKER_08: And so one of these winning pumpkins can easily clear fifty thousand dollars, which was quite the surprise to me

SPEAKER_08: And with that I was a sponsor of the event. It was great to be there and no I wasn't the biggest pumpkin head there

Unknown: Thanks

Unknown: But were there any pumpkins that resembled you oh, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah

Unknown: Had quite the carved array. Yeah, that really is a great event. I love the pumpkin contest so

Unknown: So I'm I got to attend the FEI

SPEAKER_04: Gala and it's great to see FEI is like back in the mix

SPEAKER_04: It seems you know very strong. I know they had some trouble before but it was a very enjoyable

SPEAKER_04: enjoyable evening, and I love support supporting an organization that introduces

SPEAKER_04: Young people to nature and there's a lot of kids that when they go to FEI

SPEAKER_04: That's the first time they've been to the American River Parkway, so

SPEAKER_04: So anyway, I think that's one of my favorite events of the year

SPEAKER_04: I also went to the CAP Bio Summit which was a summit about

SPEAKER_04: the ecosystem

SPEAKER_04: supporting

SPEAKER_04: the development and really overall growth of

SPEAKER_04: biotech in the Sacramento region and to talked about like the whole ecosystem from you know helping

Unknown: Their leaders develop their capacity

SPEAKER_04: Challenges of getting finance

SPEAKER_04: really and also of growing and

SPEAKER_04: And what I came away with was that we're in a great place

SPEAKER_04: to be part of that and to actually to get over there the UC Davis

SPEAKER_04: bias against going the east of

SPEAKER_04: West Sacramento and there are a lot of people who involved in an industry who don't realize the the benefits of

SPEAKER_04: moving to Sacramento, and it's something that

SPEAKER_04: We keep an eye on and you know building on some of the connections that I made there so

SPEAKER_04: and then I

SPEAKER_04: Was very pleased to be able to receive on behalf of SMUD

SPEAKER_04: The economic impact award from the Hispanic Chamber. It was the very first

SPEAKER_04: award of that type

Unknown: And it was actually a great honor. I know that we have a very strong

SPEAKER_04: relationship with Hispanic Chamber and they help us achieve some of our goals and I think

SPEAKER_04: You know I think it's very important that we help them

SPEAKER_04: Achieve their goals as well, and there are some very interesting speakers about the role and the importance of

SPEAKER_04: Latinos in the not just the local economy, but the national economy and some pretty

SPEAKER_04: eye-popping

SPEAKER_04: Statistics about about that

Unknown: Speaking of awards I was at the cleaner or partnerships where Paul as director Rose mentioned

Unknown: Paul

SPEAKER_04: Paul Lau got yet another award and I mentioned to him that now that he's a retiree

SPEAKER_04: He's only expected to get one award a month not a week so

SPEAKER_04: He accepted that challenge and then I spent a week out in New York City at the climate week

SPEAKER_04: climate week, New York City

SPEAKER_04: had a great opportunity to

SPEAKER_04: Be the sole member of a

SPEAKER_04: fireside chat, so I got to speak about SMUD's efforts to

SPEAKER_04: ensure

SPEAKER_04: resilience and reliability and affordability and really the

SPEAKER_04: Got to talk a lot about our commitment to the community and really looking at

SPEAKER_04: resilience as even including economic resilience amongst our customers because if

Unknown: If you're better able to pay your bills better in a better economic

SPEAKER_04: situation you're also

SPEAKER_04: Safer with there's a heat event or a cold snap or things like that so

Unknown: And I

Unknown: Let's see

Unknown: Notice that there was a lot of discussion about AI and I learned a lot about how some other

SPEAKER_04: Areas have dealt with the issue

SPEAKER_04: had the

SPEAKER_04: opportunity along with

SPEAKER_04: Jose but if a member to participate in Casa Morelia

SPEAKER_04: Rices

Unknown: Rices

SPEAKER_04: Monarca gala and it's

SPEAKER_04: celebrating the people of

SPEAKER_04: Morelia and the state of Michoacán who live here in our area and and really

SPEAKER_04: Celebrating the the connection that we have with them including the sister

SPEAKER_04: sister city arrangement that

SPEAKER_04: The the city of Sacramento has with them, but also that we're participating in as well

SPEAKER_04: and

SPEAKER_04: Had the opportunity to deliver my entire speech in Spanish

SPEAKER_04: So that was that was the first time I've ever done that because everybody else was speaking Spanish the whole night

SPEAKER_04: So I wasn't going to go in there and be speaking English

SPEAKER_04: So and then I had a great time and I was amazed at

SPEAKER_04: an

SPEAKER_04: Opening or a ribbon cutting for the new Elk Grove library, which is located in a converted Rite Aid

SPEAKER_04: So it's a very creative way of using a space that's basically been abandoned and

SPEAKER_04: I was just really impressed. There were over 200 people there

SPEAKER_04: They were super enthusiastic and it just go to show that you know the the community of Elk Grove

SPEAKER_04: Really is able to do very positive things and they had a very strong connection with the people that came there

SPEAKER_04: So the city was involved with and along with the the library

SPEAKER_04: Agency

SPEAKER_04: It was a great event. I was really surprised that a ribbon cutting would be that exciting and then finally

Unknown: We I had asked the Filipino community to organize a reception to

SPEAKER_04: To meet our first

SPEAKER_04: Filipina

SPEAKER_04: CEO and they're very enthusiastic and we had a great turnout a lot of I know you

Unknown: Laura you had

SPEAKER_04: You were well the star of the night and I think people really appreciated

SPEAKER_04: You being there and finding out about you know your your vision for the organization and really just to make that connection

SPEAKER_04: with the leaders in that community, so

SPEAKER_04: Very happy that we that we did that and I wanted to thank the award-winning

SPEAKER_04: Rhonda Staley Brooks for for being the point person or organizing that so just one of your many

SPEAKER_04: accomplishments and finally

SPEAKER_04: Speaking about you know great employees

Unknown: Tonight is Frankie McDermott's last board meeting and

SPEAKER_04: You know it's actually

Unknown: Kind of a surprise that it's that it's like really here

SPEAKER_04: I know that you're you're still going to be lurking around here until the beginning of next month

Unknown: but

SPEAKER_04: Given the season that's an app, you know you've been you've been

SPEAKER_04: You know one of the leaders here ever since I've been on the board and

SPEAKER_04: I've learned a lot from you

SPEAKER_04: I've been very impressed with all the things that you've done and really your insights have really helped me and I'm sure that

SPEAKER_04: Your insights and your knowledge have helped the rest of the boards or to understand

Unknown: More about the organization or a place in it. I've always been impressed with not only what you do within

Unknown: The organization but but out in the community

SPEAKER_04: I know that

SPEAKER_04: People in the community as well as you know

Unknown: in the industry

SPEAKER_04: Across the nation you're very well regarded and you know, that's really quite

SPEAKER_04: quite a thing to

SPEAKER_04: To accomplish over your what 23 years of service to smud

Unknown: So I want to thank you for that and I'm gonna highlight a few of those

Unknown: One that was really

Unknown: Really important was you know after that disaster with with six hundred thousand

SPEAKER_04: Customers being out of power. We realized, you know, we need to figure out how to how to do that better and I know that you

SPEAKER_04: Spearheaded a major effort to look at you know, what do you do?

SPEAKER_04: What are other people do and what can you do to improve that and then you've made many many improvements in

SPEAKER_04: in how we prepare and respond to

SPEAKER_04: Major outage events and and and also of course to avoid those major outage events

SPEAKER_04: Another thing that I really need to call out is your amazing progress

SPEAKER_04: in

Unknown: Our safety culture and going from you know

Unknown: Decent safety record when I first joined to being

SPEAKER_04: almost at zero and I have a lot of confidence that the the culture that you've created in the

SPEAKER_04: Orientation of the staff of saying, you know, let's really look at how do we improve that that's immense value

Unknown: Not only to the organization, but obviously to all the people who are not going to be injured

SPEAKER_04: and to their families so

Unknown: It's an incredible contribution

Unknown: Not to mention

Unknown: You know all you've done to strengthen our reliability

SPEAKER_04: and modernization and the workforce development that you've worked on the

SPEAKER_04: the line worker

SPEAKER_04: apprenticeship

SPEAKER_04: pre-apprenticeship

SPEAKER_04: program the Power Academy

SPEAKER_04: Women and skilled trades day and so many other contributions to

SPEAKER_04: Strengthen and diversify our workforce. It's just an amazing body of work

Unknown: You're not the CEO, but we're still going to hold you to 12

SPEAKER_04: Awards a year once you leave so so we'll we'll be reporting on that periodically

SPEAKER_04: But no, I just you know and personally just thank you very much for your service. I

Unknown: Really enjoyed your company and your wisdom and

SPEAKER_04: Just all the conversations we had and I know we're gonna have more conversations in the future and what am I

SPEAKER_04: banging on

SPEAKER_04: So so anyway, I'm gonna end it there. Thank you very much

SPEAKER_04: If it weren't abusive, I'd make you stand up and take a big bow but

Unknown: And I hope you enjoy your lunches with Paul who and and so and that you change your name to Frankie who so

SPEAKER_04: I'll remember who you are. This up, but I'm gonna hand it over to our

SPEAKER_04: CEO who I'm sure will have other things to say

SPEAKER_04: About your service. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you president tomorrow. It's been another busy month

SPEAKER_11: It's actually been a busy week with new stories about smud and our zero carbon progress

SPEAKER_11: So I'd like to start by sharing my perspective on these stories and where we are in our journey to a zero carbon future

SPEAKER_11: Smut has always been a leader in carbon reduction and that's thanks to our board's leadership and their courage to set bold goals and take bold action

Unknown: I'm incredibly proud of the progress we've made towards the 2030 zero carbon goal the board set in 2021

Unknown: But a lot has changed since then

Unknown: rising resource costs tariffs supply chain challenges loss of renewable tax credits

SPEAKER_11: Incentives and hundreds of millions of dollars in grants are a huge challenge to the affordability of our zero carbon plan

SPEAKER_11: Advances in technology particularly hydrogen carbon capture and sequestration and long-duration battery storage have been much slower than we originally expected

Unknown: The news reports reflect these headwinds and the realities of our current situation

Unknown: these couldn't have been foreseen six years ago and while we are still very much committed to achieving zero carbon these headwinds are

SPEAKER_11: Impacting our ability to reach zero carbon by 2030

Unknown: So while headlines capture attention

SPEAKER_11: They don't always capture the full picture and they don't reflect decisions when I took this position

SPEAKER_11: I committed to this board that I would lead with transparency

Unknown: Being transparent about where we're at and the challenges that we face are

SPEAKER_11: Essential to trust with our board with our community with our employees and the customers that we serve

Unknown: I'm looking forward to our upcoming integrated resources plan and

Unknown: The important conversations and deliberations will have will be having conversations about trade-offs and balancing this energy

SPEAKER_11: Transition with affordability

SPEAKER_11: reliability and sustainability

Unknown: These will not be easy conversations, but they're critical

Unknown: The integrated resources plan our IRP is updated every five years

SPEAKER_11: It is a public process which outlines our energy resource needs

SPEAKER_11: financial implications and helps our board set our

SPEAKER_11: decarbonization targets

Unknown: For nearly 80 years. We've been responsible stewards of this vital community asset called smud

Unknown: It's a responsibility that this organization takes to heart and I'm committed to delivering on it each and every day

Unknown: So now I want to shift gears and share some good news about our employee giving campaign

Unknown: We wrapped up a month-long smud cares employee giving campaign and I'm proud to say

Unknown: That Jose but deep remember being the sponsor beat my record

SPEAKER_11: Not that it was a competition

SPEAKER_11: But it was

SPEAKER_11: That they surpassed our goal of raising 460,000 this year we hit an all-time record high of raising

SPEAKER_11: $567,000

Unknown: Over

SPEAKER_11: 600 of our employees participated by donating their own money to causes and nonprofits that they're passionate about

Unknown: Every dollar truly makes a difference. I want to sincerely thank our employees not just for their generous financial donations

SPEAKER_11: But for the thousands of hours they give to our community each and every year

SPEAKER_11: It's an honor to lead this organization with a team that's generally cares about

Unknown: About and is committed to supporting our customers and community

Unknown: I'm also proud to share another exciting milestone with our fleet electrification efforts over the past decade

SPEAKER_11: We've been focusing on replacing gas powered engines in our fleet with electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles

Unknown: Back in 2016 just over 6% of our fleet was classified as EV or hybrid and we logged just over

SPEAKER_11: 2400 zero emission miles. I'm pleased to say that one more

SPEAKER_11: I'm pleased to say that more than 20% of our vehicles are now electric or hybrid in fact

SPEAKER_11: 100% of our small passenger vehicles are electrified. We're on track to log log nearly

SPEAKER_11: 600,000 zero emission miles in 2026. That's 20,000 times our 20

SPEAKER_11: 20,000 percent increase over the last decade the equivalent to making over 200 cross cross country trips from Sacramento to New York

Unknown: This is incredible progress and we're going to continue these efforts to lead by example and deliver real emissions reductions

Unknown: This past month. We're proud to host our fifth connecting our communities resource expo

Unknown: We know bringing some other resources to our communities is important and so is making it easier for them to access wraparound services for our community partners

Unknown: customers and community members engaged with our smud teams and had the chance to connect with more than 40 organizations with resources spanning from affordable housing

Unknown: food assistance legal services

SPEAKER_11: transportation and more

Unknown: More than 500 people attended showing that there's much need in our community

Unknown: We're proud to be able to convene so many of our community partners to support this need

Unknown: we're thankful for the support of regional transit and

Unknown: Provide they provided courtesy RT rides to and from the event

SPEAKER_11: Participants could even get to get their bikes tuned up for free by the Sacramento area bike advocates

SPEAKER_11: Thank you to the teams who work hard each day to make it possible for our communities to get the support that they need

Unknown: Team smud was recognized with several well-deserved awards this month first the electric power research Institute or EPRI

SPEAKER_11: Awarded us with the technology transfer award for our ultrasonic vibration monitoring system

SPEAKER_11: UVMS is a practical real-time technology that enhances the monitoring and maintenance of our hydropower assets

Unknown: Next the American Public Power Association or APPA

SPEAKER_11: Recognized are powering the moments that matter multi-language and multi-channel marketing campaign with an excellence in communication

SPEAKER_11: award and

Unknown: Finally our interim chief of marketing and communications officer Ronda Staley Brooks was inducted into the big brothers and big sisters Hall of Fame in

SPEAKER_11: Recognition of her 33 years of service with the organization helping make a difference in so many children's lives

SPEAKER_11: Congratulations Ronda on this well-deserved honor

Unknown: Before we watch tonight's video. I'd like to join director tomorrow in recognizing our chief operating officer Frankie McDermott again

SPEAKER_11: It's his last board meeting

SPEAKER_11: After more than 23 years you're retiring in November and leaving behind a tremendous impact

SPEAKER_11: Your leadership expertise and commitment to our customers and community will be felt for years to come

Unknown: We will miss you Frankie. I will miss you and your mentorship

SPEAKER_11: Congratulations on your well-deserved retirement

Unknown: Tonight's video focuses on three of our shine award projects our shine award program provides funding to help local nonprofits in our service area

SPEAKER_11: complete projects that advance clean energy education

Unknown: workforce development

SPEAKER_11: Environmental justice economic opportunity and other community-based initiatives that support a clean energy future in this social media video

SPEAKER_11: We highlight three shine recipients who are demonstrating what's possible through collaboration and a little bit of creativity

Unknown: Let's take a look

Unknown: Hi everyone Kevin Burdick here with smud's shine awards program along with me as we look at three amazing shine award recipients every year

SPEAKER_01: We award over half a million dollars to local nonprofits doing amazing clean energy projects

Unknown: First up the soil-borne farms shine isn't just about power

SPEAKER_01: It's about empowering people with the help from smud they purchase new electric zero emission remote controlled farm factors

Unknown: These quiet zero emission tractors cut out on diesel pollution make farming easier on workers bodies and keep soil healthy while growing fresh local food

SPEAKER_01: Next up is empowerment park this green space shows what happens when clean energy meets community design a

Unknown: partnership with smud secured the land and shine funding helped kickstart this amazing socially inclusive playground for children of all ages and abilities

SPEAKER_01: Through clean energy upgrades shade structures and fun for the whole family

Unknown: And

SPEAKER_01: Finally thanks to a smud shine award Sacramento bicycle advocates now has two pedal powered sweepers named crunch and much

Unknown: These pedal powered machines keep our bike lanes clean by removing leaves and debris making our ride safer and more enjoyable

Unknown: From farms to parks and bike lanes and everything in between

SPEAKER_01: Smud shine award program is proud to support nonprofits that keep Sacramento moving to learn more visit smud org slash shine

Unknown: You

Unknown: And this concludes my report

Unknown: Do we have any summary to note for the record

Unknown: No, we do not all right. So seeing no further business this meeting is adjourned. Thank you