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"If elected I'll focus on job creation that's small business-based and green; support the development of affordable housing and thriving neighborhoods; champion educational opportunities for our children; and work for a better environment, including creating more open space, and cleaning-up the toxic legacy of years gone by."

—Steve Moss

 

While he was attending the Univesity of California, Berkeley, Steve interned with his local Congressperson, Pete McCloskey, during which he was awarded a Lyndon B. Johnson Congressional Scholarship. While in graduate school he interned at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), working on U.S. Department of Commerce programs. After graduating from the University of Michigan he received a Presidential Management Internship, and returned to OMB to serve as a Budget Examiner, responsible for physician reimbursement payments under Medicare Part B, a job he held for two years.

Steve left OMB to join the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa. He returned to Washington, D.C. where he worked at the Small Business Subcommittee on Business Opportunity and Regulation, U.S. House of Representatives, focusing on small business health care issues.

Steve worked for a variety of policy consulting firms in the Bay Area. In 1992 he opened his own firm, M.Cubed, with another University of Michigan alum. Steve remains a partner at M Cubed. The firm established the Cecil Gomez Memorial Fund, donating five percent of their annual profits.

As a partner at M Cubed Steve has worked for a wide variety of clients and led a large number of analytic efforts, including:

• Developed the underlying analysis behind Beyond Sprawl: New Patterns of Growth to Fit the New California, Bank of America’s break-through study on the adverse consequences of urban sprawl. He also conducted analyses of land use issues for American Farmland Trust, among other clients.
• The National Economic Impacts of the Child Care Sector, published by The National Child Care Association, which for the first time quantified the productivity value of the child care sector. He published several other studies on the economic importance of child care access.
• A Guide to Reviewing Environmental Studies, published by the California Environmental Protection Agency, and used in the 1990s by all Cal-EPA agencies as a primer on how to apply analytic techniques to examine proposed environmental policies.
• The Economic and Fiscal Implications of Affordable Housing, A Santa Clara County Perspective, published by Silicon Valley Citizens for Affordable Housing.
• Submitted numerous analyses and expert testimony over a ten year period on behalf of agricultural customers in Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) regulatory proceedings. In 1996 Steve’s testimony was cited by the state as one of the key rationales for reducing PG&E’s revenue request by tens of millions of dollars; and he was part of a team of analysts who gained regulatory approval for a program to encourage farmers to shift from diesel-powered to electrical pumps, thereby reducing millions of tons of polluting air and greenhouse gas emissions.

In 1997 Steve was awarded a W.K. Kellogg Leadership Fellowship, which led him to shift his career focus towards place-based and community-oriented work. He started teaching, first in the Urban Studies, and then the Public Administration program at San Francisco State University, as well as San Quentin State Prison’s college program for inmates.

He published “Confessions of an Expert Witness” in legal affairs magazine, started recording monthly commentaries on KQED-Radio’s Perspective series, aired a commentary on National Public Radio’s Marketplace about the importance of neighborhood businesses and was appointed to the California Inspection and Maintenance (Smog Check II) Review Committee.

In 2001 Steve was appointed to the Potrero Power Plant Citizen’s Task Force by Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and was awarded a Salzburg Seminar Fellowship to attend a conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on international energy issues. That same year he founded San Francisco Community Power, with a goal of shutting down the Hunters Point and Potrero Power Plants by using community- and place-based methods to help low-income families and small businesses better manager their resource use, with concomitant sustainable environmental advocacy activities. Over the past nine years Steve has led SF Power to:

• Collaborate with other environmental nonprofits and community activists to help create the City’s first Electricity Resource Plan, and close the Hunters Point Power Plant and the Potrero Power Plant.
• Challenge the need for the Trans Bay Cable, which resulted in the creation of a multi-million dollar community mitigation fund.
• Create the award-winning Treasure Trek, which relied on Potrero Hill neighborhood businesses to distribute energy efficient items in a fun and educational way.
• Replace more than 100 residential and commercial refrigerators in Bayview-Hunters Point and Potrero.
• Help Pet Camp, a small Bayview business, install photovoltaics, which for several years was the largest privately-owned PV system in San Francisco.
• Distribute tens of thousands of energy and water conservation measures to more than 20,000 Southeast San Francisco low-income residents and small businesses.
• Launch an innovative pilot that demonstrated that Bayview-Hunters Point and Potrero residents would be willing to reduce their electricity use by 7 percent if that would help close a polluting power plant.
• Conduct another innovative pilot, which examined small businesses’ ability to relieve strain on the local electric distribution system by working with dozens of enterprises clustered around the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Mart.
• Create the Church Light Initiative, in which three Bayview churches were provided with energy efficient lighting and refrigeration.
• Hired and trained as energy, water, and climate auditors, and financial literacy educators, more than four dozen previously un- or underemployed community members speaking multiple languages.
• Developed, advocated for, and implemented a first of its kind pilot that enables small businesses to participate in “demand-response” programs, which had previously been limited to large commercial and industrial energy users, with 300 mostly small businesses temporarily reducing their electricity use by more than five megawatts.
• Launched Neighborhood Newswire web site, which provides high-quality news articles to Bay Area neighborhood and ethnic periodicals.
• Collaborated with Environmental Defense Fund to implement Climate for Community, a pilot initiative that was based on a journal article Steve wrote, “Community-Based Trading Mechanisms to Reduce Polluting Air Emissions and Address Global Warming,” Journal of Environmental Assessment, Policy, and Management, June 1999, to enable low-income families and small businesses to participate in emerging carbon markets as a means of reducing greenhouse gas and polluting air emissions while providing economic opportunities to vulnerable communities.

In 2004 Steve was awarded a Fulbright Indo-American Environmental Leader Fellowship, and helped a small village in Southern India create garbage collection infrastructure.

In 2005 Steve became the publisher of the Potrero View, focusing on providing indepth coverage of communities news and families.

In 2007 Steve began an engagement with the U.S. Treasury Department in which he provided budget policy advice to Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries. Between 2007 and 2008 Steve traveled to Niger eight times, to consult with Ministry of Finance officials, hold workshops with governmental staff, and collaborate with other international financing agencies on policy reform efforts.

In 2008 Steve became a member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Community Air Risk Evaluation, and the California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research Distribution Research Program Committee.

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