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The latter’s plans to host a five-way mayoral debate on May 20 are in disarray, while the former is announcing plans to host a town-hall meeting between the candidates just one day later.
TogetherSF ensures that its moderators will have “complete editorial independence to ensure the integrity of our debate,” TogetherSF CEO Kanishka Cheng said in a statement to The Examiner. “Our moderators are in charge of the entire format and questions, and are doing so in a way that they believe will provide the most value to our community and voters across San Francisco.”
“London Breed, when she walks into the room, knows that we disagree with her on many issues,” Kwong said. “Whenever we discuss endorsements, anyone who works for a campaign, anyone who’s campaign staff, needs to leave the room,” said Kwong, who will personally be moderating his organization’s town-hall meeting.
Peskin is the only prominent progressive candidate in the race. But for moderate candidates, entering the progressive lion’s den of the Harvey Milk club could prove worthwhile. Last month, city officials laid out their case to residents during a webinar presented by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, arguing that a public utility would offer more reliable service, cleaner energy, and — perhaps most enticingly — cheaper rates.
Energy experts said it’s still too early to tell, given that a number of key expenses in the transition — including the cost of purchasing PG&E’s equipment and then disentangling that equipment from the utility’s grid — have yet to be hashed out.“If you think municipalization is going to solve the problems you have with your PG&E bill this year, that’s a misunderstanding,” said Michael Wara, a research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Federal data for California’s utilities seem to reflect those cost savings, with public utilities charging an average of 17.5 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with 24.7 cents per kilowatt hour for the investor-owned utilities in 2022. Given the pushback, Wara said, “It would be incredibly surprising if San Francisco were to make an offer to PG&E that was high enough that PG&E would willingly accept it.”
Even with the unknowns that lie ahead, Hale said, The City’s models forecast that a public transition would lead to cost savings.She declined to share the figures, explaining that they are still considered a draft. City officials reject this claim, though, arguing that PG&E makes less money from San Francisco residents than those who live elsewhere in the state, as San Franciscans tend to spend less on heating and cooling, given The City’s mild climate.
“It would be an understatement to say things are OK — they are not OK, but progress is being made,” Michael Fine, CEO of the CDE’s Fiscal Crisis Team, told commissioners at a Tuesday Board of Education meeting. “You are not in district state receivership; you are nowhere close. Our collective commitment is to ensure you don’t get there.”
School board President Lainie Motamedi said she welcomes the partnership with the California Department of Education.
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