AGENDA SPECIAL MEETING Friday, October 19, 2007 11:00 A.M.  NOTE DIFFERENT MEETING START TIME/ROOM LOCATION City Hall, Room 263 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place COMMISSIONERS The Honorable Ryan L. Brooks, President The Honorable Ann Moller Caen, Vice President The Honorable E. Dennis Normandy The Honorable Richard Sklar The Honorable David Hochschild

DEPARTMENTS AND ENTERPRISES Water Enterprise Wastewater Enterprise Power Enterprise Infrastructure Business Services External Affairs Gavin Newsom MAYOR   Susan Leal GENERAL MANAGER Michael Housh SECRETARY

Disability Access

The Public Utilities Commission meeting will be held in Room 263, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA. The Commission meeting room is wheelchair accessible. The closest accessible BART station is the Civic Center Station at United Nations Plaza and Market Street. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: #47 Van Ness, and #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness and the Metro Stations at Van Ness and Market and at Civic Center. For information about MUNI accessible services call (415) 923-6142. There is accessible curbside parking adjacent to City Hall on Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue and in the vicinity of the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial Complex.

The following services are available on request 48 hours prior to the meeting; except for Monday meetings, for which the deadline shall be 4:00 p.m. of the last business day of the preceding week: For American sign language interpreters or the use of a reader during a meeting, a sound enhancement system, and/or alternative formats of the agenda and minutes, please contact Michael Housh at (415) 554-3165 or our TTY at (415) 554-3488 to make arrangements for the accommodation. Late requests will be honored, if possible.

In order to assist the City's efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City accommodate these individuals. Individuals with chemical sensitivity or related disabilities should call our accessibility hotline at (415) 554-6060.

Know your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance
(Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code)

Government’s duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils, and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people’s business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people’s review. For more information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, City Hall, Room 409, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102-4683 at Phone No.: (415) 554-7724; Fax No.: (415) 554-7854; E-mail: sotf@sfgov.org . Copies of the Sunshine Ordinance can be obtained from the Clerk of the Sunshine Task Force, the San Francisco Public Library and on the City’s website at www.sfgov.org

1. Call to Order
   
2. Roll Call
   
3. Public Comment

   CLOSED SESSION

   NOTE the Commission will go into closed session to discuss items on its agenda shortly after the beginning of the meeting and will remain in closed session one hour.

   
   
4. Public comments on matters to be discussed in Closed Session.
   
5. Motion on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege regarding the matters listed below as Conference with Legal Counsel.

   THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WILL GO INTO CLOSED SESSION TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:
   

6. Conference with Real Property Negotiator – Pursuant to Sunshine Ordinance Section 67.8 (a)(2), Govt. Code section 54956.8: Property: located at 25th Street and Maryland in San Francisco, California. (Hale)

   Negotiator for the SFPUC: Barbara Hale Negotiator: JPower.
   

7. Conference with Legal Counsel – Pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956.9 (b) and (c) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10 (d) (2) (Ambrose)

   Anticipated Litigation: As defendant.

   FOLLOWING THE CLOSED SESSION, THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WILL RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION.
   

8. Announcement following Closed Session.
   
9. Motion regarding whether to disclose the discussions during Closed Session.
   
10. Discussion and possible action related to SFPUC Resolution No 07-0137, and discussion of the proposed San Francisco Electric reliability Project (the Combustion Turbines (CTs)), discussion of the environmental reviews of this project.

    ADJOURNMENT of the Special Meeting