1 BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION 2 450 N STREET 3 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 4 5 6 7 8 REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT 9 DECEMBER 17, 2013 10 11 12 13 14 15 FINAL ACTION 16 E1a - GWF ENERGY, LLC-Hanford (1122), 743424 17 E1b - GWF ENERGY, LLC-Henrietta (1123), 743425 18 E1c - GWF ENERGY, LLC-Tracy (1124), 743427 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 REPORTED BY: Kathleen Skidgel 28 CSR NO. 9039 1 1 P R E S E N T 2 3 For the Board Jerome E. Horton of Equalization: Chairman 4 5 Michelle Steel Vice-Chairwoman 6 7 Betty T. Yee Member 8 9 George Runner Member 10 11 John Chiang State Controller 12 13 Joann Richmond Chief, Board Proceedings 14 Division 15 For Board of Equalization Staff: Lou Ambrose 16 Tax Counsel IV Legal Department 17 18 ---oOo--- 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 1 450 N STREET 2 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 3 DECEMBER 17, 2013 4 ---oOo--- 5 MR. HORTON: Ms. Richmond. 6 MS. RICHMOND: Our next item is the item 7 that was submitted for decision, Item E, GWF Energy, 8 LLC - Hanford; GWF Energy, LLC - Henrietta; GWF 9 Energy, LLC - Tracy. 10 MR. HORTON: Thank you, Ms. Richmond. 11 MS. YEE: Mr. Chairman, I'll move to -- 12 MR. HORTON: Discussion? 13 MS. YEE: -- adopt the staff 14 recommendation. 15 MR. HORTON: Member Yee moves to adopt 16 staff recommendation. Second by Member Chiang. 17 MS. STEEL: Objection. 18 MR. HORTON: Objection noted by Member 19 Steel. 20 Miss -- discussion, Members? 21 Member Runner. 22 MR. RUNNER: Yeah, I'm -- I'm not going to 23 be supportive of the motion. I think that there is 24 some conclusions that -- out of Elk Hills that could 25 be applied and potentially on a number of issues for 26 us here and in the future, and I'm not sure we have 27 adequately dealt with those. So I'd be -- 28 MR. HORTON: Thank you, sir. So noted. 3 1 Ms. Richmond, please call the roll. 2 MS. RICHMOND: Mr. Horton. 3 MR. HORTON: Aye. 4 MS. RICHMOND: Ms. Steel. 5 MS. STEEL: No. 6 MS. RICHMOND: Mr. Runner. 7 MR. RUNNER: No. 8 MS. RICHMOND: Ms. Yee. 9 MS. YEE: Aye. 10 MS. RICHMOND: Ms. Mandel -- oh, I'm sorry. 11 Mr. Chiang. 12 MR. CHIANG: Aye. 13 MS. RICHMOND: Motion carries. 14 MR. HORTON: Thank you. 15 ---oOo--- 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE 2 3 State of California ) 4 ) ss 5 County of Sacramento ) 6 7 I, KATHLEEN SKIDGEL, Hearing Reporter for 8 the California State Board of Equalization certify 9 that on December 17, 2013 taken I recorded verbatim, 10 in shorthand, to the best of my ability, the 11 proceedings in the above-entitled hearing; that I 12 transcribed the shorthand writing into typewriting; 13 and that the preceding pages 1 through 4 constitute 14 a complete and accurate transcription of the 15 shorthand writing. 16 17 Dated: January 9, 2013 18 19 20 ____________________________ 21 KATHLEEN SKIDGEL, CSR #9039 22 Hearing Reporter 23 24 25 26 27 28 5