MCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Wednesday, March 3, 2025
12:00 P.M.
Present: Eli Beckman, Town of Corte Madera, joined at 12:12pm Cindy Darling, City of Walnut Creek
Maika Llorens Gulati, City of San Rafael
Gabriel Quinto, City of El Cerrito
Devin Murphy, City of Pinole
Max Perrey, City of Mill Valley, Chair
Laura Nakamura, City of Concord
Mathew Salter, Town of Ross
Sally Wilkinson, City of Belvedere
Absent: Shanelle Scales-Preston, County of Contra Costa Staff
& Others: Jared Blanton, VP of Public Affairs
Jesica Brooks, Lead Board Clerk and Executive Assistant Vidhi Chawla, VP of Power Resources
Shuvo Chowdhury, VP of Technology & Analytics
Sebastian Conn, Senior Community Development Manager
Alice Havenar-Daughton, VP of Customer Programs
Vicken Kasarjian, Chief Operations Officer
Shaheen Khan, VP of Human Resources, Diversity, and Inclusion Caroline Lavenue, Legal Counsel
Tanya Lomas, Board Clerk Associate
Alexandra McGee, VP of Strategic Initiatives
Lindsay Meehan, Manager of Human Resources
Catalina Murphy, General Counsel
Ashley Muth, Internal Operations Coordinator
Efren Oxlaj, Finance Manager
Justine Parmelee, VP of Internal Operations
Zae Perrin, VP of Customer Operations
Mike Rodriguez-Vargas, Internal Operations Assistant
Enyonam Senyo-Mensah, Internal Operations Manager
Maíra Strauss, VP of Finance and Treasurer
Lisa Strong, Internal Operations Intern
Jamie Tuckey, Chief Customer Officer
Dawn Weisz, Chief Executive Officer
1. Roll Call
Chair Perrey called the regular Executive Committee meeting to order at 12:01 p.m. with quorum established by roll call.
2. Board Announcements (Discussion)
There were no comments.
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3. Public Open Time (Discussion)
Chair Perrey opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
4. Report from Chief Executive Officer (Discussion)
CEO, Dawn Weisz, introduced this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
5. Consent Calendar (Discussion/Action)
C.1 Approval of 2.3.25 Meeting Minutes
C.2 Proposed Fifth Agreement with EV.Energy Corp
C.3 Draft 3.20.25 Board Agenda
Chair Perrey opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
6. Proposed Fiscal Year 2025/26 Budget (Discussion/Action) Maíra Strauss, VP of Finance and Treasurer and several MCE staff presented this item and addressed questions from Committee members Chair Perrey opened the public comment period, and comments were made by member of the public, Dan Segedin.
Action: It was M/S/C (Darling/Quinto) recommend to the Board of Directors approval of:
1. The MCE Cares Credit with an allocation of $5,000,000,
2. Up to $13 million transfer from the Operating Reserve to the Operating fund, and
3. The proposed Fiscal Year 2025/26 budgets.
Motion carried by roll call vote. Yays-6; Nos-2: (Nos: Salter and Wilkinson;
Absent: Beckman and Scales-Preston)
7. 2024 Charles F. McGlashan Advocacy Award Nominations (Discussion/Action)
Sebastian Conn, Senior Community Development Manager, presented this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
Chair Perrey opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
Action: It was M/S/C (Nakamura/Darling) to approve
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce,
Action: It was M/S/C (Darling/Nakamura) to approve Consent Calendar C.1, C.2 and C.3. Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote. (Absent: Beckman, and Scales-Preston).
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Andrew Bradley, City of St. Helena
as the 2024 recipients of the Charles F. McGlashan Award to be presented at a future meeting of the MCE Board of Directors.
Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote. (Absent: Beckman and Scales-Preston).
8. Committee & Staff Matters (Discussion)
Director Salter made comments.
9. Adjournment
Chair Perrey adjourned the meeting at 2:22 p.m. to the next scheduled Executive Committee Meeting on April 7, 2025.
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Max Perrey, Chair
Attest:
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Dawn Weisz, Secretary
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