MCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Monday, October 6, 2025
12:00 P.M.
Present: Stephanie Andre, City of Larkspur
Eli Beckman, Town of Corte Madera, left at 1:36 p.m.
Barbara Coler, Town of Fairfax
Cindy Darling, City of Walnut Creek
Maika Llorens Gulati, City of San Rafael
Devin Murphy, City of Pinole
Laura Nakamura, City of Concord
Max Perrey, City of Mill Valley, Chair
Gabriel Quinto, City of El Cerrito
Shanelle Scales-Preston, County of Contra Costa
Sally Wilkinson, City of Belvedere
Staff
& Others: Jared Blanton, VP of Public Affairs
Jesica Brooks, Lead Board Clerk and Executive Assistant John Dalessi, Pacific Energy Advisors
Jenn Green, Manager of Customer Programs
CB Hall, Principal Power Procurement Manager
Vicken Kasarjian, Chief Operations Officer
Caroline Lavenue, Legal Counsel II
Tanya Lomas, Board Clerk Associate
Catalina Murphy, General Counsel
Ashley Muth, Internal Operations Associate
Justine Parmelee, VP of Internal Operations
Mike Rodriguez-Vargas, Internal Operations Assistant
Dan Settlemyer, Internal Operations Associate
Taylor Sherman, IT Analyst
Maíra Strauss, VP of Finance
Dawn Weisz, Chief Executive Officer
1. Roll Call
Chair Perrey called the regular Executive Committee meeting to order at 12:02p.m. with quorum established by roll call.
2. Board Announcements (Discussion)
Comments were made by Directors Murphy and Scales-Preston.
3. Public Open Time (Discussion)
Comments were made by members of the public, Ken Strong and Jody Timms.
4. Report from Chief Executive Officer (Discussion)
Docusign Envelope ID: 6CFFDF70-42BC-47A3-861A-B444F080EDAE CEO, Dawn Weisz, introduced this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
5. Consent Calendar (Discussion/Action)
C.1 Approval of 8.28.25 Meeting Minutes
C.2 Resolution 2025-05 Chevron Grant Fund Acceptance
C.3 Draft 10.16.25 Board Retreat Agenda
Chair Perrey opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
Action 1: It was M/S/C (Coler/Murphy) to approve Consent Calendar items C.1 and C.2 with a correction to a clerical error on C.1. Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote.
Action 2: It was M/S/C (Darling/Murphy) to approve Consent Calendar item C.3. Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote.
8.Review of Executive Committee 2024 Items (Discussion/Action) a. Pro Forma Presentation and Discussion from November 2024 b. Committee Structure Discussion and Action from December 2024 Chair Perrey adjusted the order of items on the agenda and opened up the discussion on item 8b. There was not a staff presentation on this item, but materials prepared by staff in 2024 had been included in the packet. Item 8a was not discussed by the Committee.
Chair Perrey opened the public comment period and there were comments made by members of the public, Robert Miller, Dan Segedin and Jody Timms.
Action 1: It was M/S/C (Beckman/Wilkinson) to recommend to the Board of Directors creation of a standing Finance Committee to the full Board.
Motion carries by roll call vote. Yays-7 Nos-4 (Nos: Darling, Nakamura, Quinto, and Scales-Preston)
Action 2: It was M/S/C (Nakamura/Llorens Gulati) to recommend to the Board of Directors renaming the Executive Committee to Executive and Finance Committee with a quarterly deep dive into financials.
Motion carries by roll call vote. Yays-8 Nos-3 (Nos: Andre, Perrey, and Wilkinson)
6. MCE FY 2025/26 Pro Forma Update (Discussion)
John Dalessi, President & CEO, Pacific Energy Advisors, presented this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
Docusign Envelope ID: 6CFFDF70-42BC-47A3-861A-B444F080EDAE Chair Perrey opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
Action: No action required.
7. MCE Public Officials Code of Ethics (Discussion/Action) Chair Perrey recommended we defer this item to the December Executive Committee.
Action: No action required.
9. Committee & Staff Matters (Discussion)
There were no comments.
10. Adjournment
Chair Perrey adjourned the meeting at 2:34 p.m. to the next scheduled Executive Committee Meeting on November 3, 2025.
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Max Perrey, Chair
Attest:
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Dawn Weisz, Secretary
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