Rural Hard to Reach Local Government Partnerships’ Working Group SUMMARY NOTES April 13, 2016, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Call #: 800-791-2345, Access Code: 22540# Attendees: IMPLEMENTERS Joseph Button, AMBAG* Craig Schlatter, CDCMC
Pam Bold, HSEF* Rick Phelps, HSEF Lou Jacobson, RCEA
Sarah Farell. SJVCEO* Courtney Kalashian, SJVCEO Jon Griesser, SLO County
Greg Jones, SBC Jeremy Terhune, Valley Vision
SUMMARY NOTES Time Topic 11:00 a.m. Welcome Jon opened the call and thanked everyone for joining the call. 11:05 a.m. Celebrate Success! JG explained that this is a new permanent agenda item because we do keep racking up successes and we need to remember to acknowledge that. PG&E SMB Call In late March there was a PG&E specific SMB call/webinar about the business plan process. Five of our member agencies were on the call and it was as though we had premet on talking points, but we didn’t it was just organic and perfect. Greg Jones, SBC, asked what the specific suite of comments were. JG spoke to channel alignment and the CalPOP third party program has historically served SLO County very poorly because the plant sizes are too small. Joe Button, AMBAG, pointed out that any given business customer has many and varied options to rebates and the Trade Pro program is not as holistic as it needs to be, and the differing costs are creating customer confusing. Pushing PG&E to offer more holistic programs. JG our point is that the “dysfunction junction” is disproportionally affecting us.
11:15 a.m.
Research in Action Evaluation Courtney Kalashian, SJVCEO, shared that RIA is conducting the CPUC led impact evaluation study and the evaluator was impressed by 1) the “talking points” coordination, 2) self-organizing structure, 3) enthusiastic members. CK thanked everyone for the great representation. Lou Jacobsen seconded the remarks and shared that RHTR Business Review Action Items from 03-09-16 call JG asked each ‘owner’ to report back. CS is aware of comment assignment and no updates as the opportunity is not open yet. CK everything but Business Plan activity is on hold until August 1. GJ has not drafted an external letter. Had some comments in 2015, but in talking with on the ground staff he’s now waiting to see what the actual impacts are vs inferring what it could do. Pulling back a bit from initial stance and waiting to see. GJ will follow up with Elisabeth Russell on their stance/experience. Thinks we should hold back until we have more data. JB, ER was setting up a metric in San Benito County vs Monterey County for how hard to reach customers are being served on those two counties. JG this group would be very interested to learn more as there is more empirical information to share.
CS asked if CK wants someone else to set up and take this on. CK said she’s open to it, but would like to hold that question to the end of the call because members are going to be asked JG, the SER guidelines are fantastic, but we need to be able to be nimble because real life comes up and items like the matrix and charter will have to move back. LJ, one of the things we’ve been discussing with PG&E is having constrained SER activities makes it hard to take on real life activities, such as the business plan process. LJ volunteered to take on for the group, the updating the section of the PMP that addresses the political landscape change. LJ is also willing to take on an ongoing action item that would allow him to take in real time comments and update the SER document. JG to send to LJ to review and update for uniformity. No update on the logo. JG asked if it can come in by August. LJ suggested a note be sent to MM.
Q2 in person meeting proposed for Tuesday, June 14 12:00 p.m. in Riverside CK to take offline. RP suggested a dinner meeting with 11:20 a.m.
Sector Business Plans (www.caeecc.org) Recap of what has happened to date Opportunity to engage as RHTR in all sectors (1. Ag, 2. Comm., 3. Industrial, 4. Public, 5. Res., and 6. Cross-Cutting—C&S, Emerging Tech., WET) RHTR comments needed for each sector CK gave her pitch for why this matters. JG, originally, one long term thing that’s going to take up all my time. But, SLO County is taking is on through staff specific to those areas that you work in. Assign participation down. How can we spread the seeds of RHTR into our agencies and then into the subsector committees. JG has GJ this is a super important endeavor that it important for our agencies to be engaged in. Equity of funding question that came up. Maybe have a Google Doc matrix that we all can all self select. LJ we’re happy to be very engaged in this. AMBAG: don’t know CDCMC: yes we can get more engaged and staff can get more engaged. Whatever sector you want us to tell us. Maybe Ag? CK this has to make sense to your business. HSEF: our interests can best support the group to talk with RCEA: Comm, Res, Public and Ag SLOC: Public, Res. Comm. SJVCEO: Public, Cross-cutting Holes plugged and consistent to messaging. More concerned. SBC: Public, comm. Doesn’t have staff yet, needs to do that.
11:55 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Attachments:
Other Business  Open for member comment Wrap Up and Conclude