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an opinion from the State's Fair Political Practices Commission in order for the City Attorney's Office to approve and'move forward with the project. As reported in January, East Bay Energy Watch contracted with P1aceWorks in 2018 to develop GHG inventories for 35 jurisdictions in Alameda and Contra Costa counties for year 2017. Staff is engaging P1aceWorks, separately, to account for emissions associated with the water/wastewater sector, as well as to redevelop a similar inventory for the City's baseline year of 2005 using the same methodology. Over the last two months, staff has worked to obtain data requested by P1aceWorks needed to develop the inventories, which require coordination with outside agencies such as the Dublin San Ramon Services District and the City of Livermore. Staff expects P1aceWorks to complete this project before the end of this fiscal year and in time for the City to start the update process of its Climate Action Plan. Staff has also engaged a new web designer to design the Virtual Street website. The previous designer proved to be non-responsive and was released from the project. That resulted in at least a month and a half delay in project development. The new web designer is much more engaged and has already provided sound design concepts. Staff is developing contents to be used and anticipating to beta -test the website by the end of April. The City's CivicSpark Fellow, Zack Reda, provided a very detailed presentation on his preliminary findings based off evaluating East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) using the criteria established by the Committee. Mr. Reda indicated that if the City of Pleasanton were to join, it would be important to have strong community outreach in collaboration with the City to inform the public to help avoid misinformation being posted on Next Door and/or Facebook. It was noted that in October 2018, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUS) voted unanimously to update the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) in a way that favored IOUs and hurt Community Choice Aggregation's (CCA). The CCA customers are now partly responsible for IOU - signed energy contract that predate 2003 and there is no sunset date for the PCIA and no plan on revisiting the formula. Mr. Lee indicated that this is a very controversial issue because EBCE has promised rates to be 1.5% lower than PG& E and it is questionable on how long they will be able to sustain this with the fluctuating PCIA. Mr. Reda indicated he would obtain additional information for the committee on net energy metering (NEM) as the EBCE is still working out the details. Specifically, the Committee wished to compare PG&E and EBCE's NEM rates. He would also research if EBCE plans to acquire any nuclear power and impact of drought on hydro power contracts. In addition, more information will be gathered regarding business opt -out rates. Mr. Reda explained that he needed to complete some additional research on the following topics: U.S. v. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 14-cr-00175, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California, and EBCE's use of unbundled renewable energy certificates. It was noted that there are some unknowns with PG & E's bankruptcy, so Mr. Reda will continue to monitor and provide updates to the committee as information becomes available. Mr. Lee indicated that he would email the presentation and criteria to the committee members and welcomed any additional feedback or areas for further investigation. Ms. Brown said she could forward some additional information to Mr. Lee that might assist with some of the research. The committee discussed at length the Council's concerns for not joining the CCA, the advantages of joining the CCA and the potential unknown factors with PG & E. Mr. Lee reported that after the program has been up and running for a year (November 2019), the committee will review the program against the set criteria and forward their recommendation to the City Council for consideration. mnergy ot cnvironment committee Minutes Page 2 of 4