markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area

food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy and smoky. i will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers. i am going to stew them up and get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. >> bring it on. how are you feeling? >> i feel good.

i spent the $20 and have a few pennies less. i am going to go home and cook. i will text message u.n. is done. >> excellent and really looking forward to it. >> today we're going to make the san francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. it'll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. then we will put in the fish soup. the last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. it will be delicious. when i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. this is a good time to make our fish stock. we will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. family dinners are very important. any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal

atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart into it. make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. >> i am here with a manager at the heart of the city farmer's market in san francisco. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about the organization. >> we're 30 years old now. we started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. >> what is the mission of the organization? >> this area has no grocery store spiller it is all mom-and- pop stores. we have this because it is needed. we knew it was needed. and the plaza needed somebody.

it was empty. beautiful with city hall in the background. >> thank you for speaking with us. are you on the web? >> yes, hocfarmersmarket.org. >> check them out. thank you. >> welcome. the dish is ready. >> it looks and smells amazing. >> thank you. it was not easy to meet the $20 budget. i checked everybody out and found some great produce. really lovely seafood. i think that you are going to love it. >> do not be shy. cyou know this can run you $35 to $45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for $20. >> this will feed four to six people. >> not if you invite me over for dinner. i am ready to dig in.

>> i hope you'll love it. >> mmm. >> what do you think? >> i think i am going to need more. perhaps you can have all you want. >> i am produce the that you have crushed this farmer's market challenge by a landslide. the first, we're going to have to tally of your shopping list and see what you actually spend that the farmer's market. >> and go for it. >> incredible. you have shown us how to make super healthy, refresh chapino from the farmers market on the budget, that for the whole family. that is outstanding. >> thank you peter i am glad that you like it. i think anybody can do it. >> if you like the recipe for this dish, you can e-mail us at sfgtv@sfgov.org or reach out to

us on facebook or twitter and we

>> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's

challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy and smoky. i will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other

with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers. i am going to stew them up and get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. >> bring it on. how are you feeling? >> i feel good. i spent the $20 and have a few pennies less. i am going to go home and cook. i will text message u.n. is done. >> excellent and really looking forward to it. >> today we're going to make the san francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. it'll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. then we will put in the fish soup. the last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. it will be delicious. when i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in

season and local. those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. this is a good time to make our fish stock. we will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. family dinners are very important. any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart into it. make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. >> i am here with a manager at the heart of the city farmer's market in san francisco.

thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about the organization. >> we're 30 years old now. we started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. >> what is the mission of the organization? >> this area has no grocery store spiller it is all mom-and- pop stores. we have this because it is needed. we knew it was needed. and the plaza needed somebody. it was empty. beautiful with city hall in the background. >> thank you for speaking with us. are you on the web? >> yes, hocfarmersmarket.org. >> check them out. thank you. >> welcome. the dish is ready. >> it looks and smells amazing. >> thank you. it was not easy to meet the $20 budget. i checked everybody out and found some great produce.

really lovely seafood. i think that you are going to love it. >> do not be shy. cyou know this can run you $35 to $45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for $20. >> this will feed four to six people. >> not if you invite me over for dinner. i am ready to dig in. >> i hope you'll love it. >> mmm. >> what do you think? >> i think i am going to need more. perhaps you can have all you want. >> i am produce the that you have crushed this farmer's market challenge by a landslide. the first, we're going to have to tally of your shopping list and see what you actually spend that the farmer's market. >> and go for it. >> incredible. you have shown us how to make

super healthy, refresh chapino from the farmers market on the budget, that for the whole family. that is outstanding. >> thank you peter i am glad that you like it. i think anybody can do it. >> if you like the recipe for this dish, you can e-mail us at sfgtv@sfgov.org or reach out to us on facebook or twitter and we chairperson campos: good afternoon and welcome to the february 24, 2012 meeting. my name is david campos. i am the chair of the commission. we are joined today by the

commission vice chair, commissioner john avalos, as well as commissioner pimentel. our clerk is linda wong. i want to thank staff which is helping to cover this meeting. could you please call item number two? >> approval of lafco minutes from january, 2012. chairperson campos: if there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item 2 below? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: motion to approve. commissioner pimentel: second. chairperson campos: without objection. >> item 3, community toys aggregation activities report --

a status update on the clean power program, status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission, and status update on state legislation. chairperson campos: we will now hear from michael campbell of the public utilities commission. >> i am the director of clean power sf, through sfpuc. a few things to report on. we are, as you all know, waiting for the board of supervisors to hold hearings, and hopefully approve the shell contract that is before the board, continuing to work forward on finalizing the contract with noble america to support the back office services. while we are working on that, we are also working on developing and figuring out the precise plans for how we are going to target the rollout and how we send up out notices.

the ultimate up out estimates have so far -- in public, we have been talking about pretty conservative numbers, assuming that all parts of the city are the same as the city on average. there may be ways of targeting neighborhoods or other things that could have opt out rates be a bit lower than numbers that have been on the press. we are continuing to work toward that, as well as a variety of housekeeping things that need to get done, and million of them, before launch. before the legislature, if you recall, last year, there was a bill, sb 790, which helped cca a lot. the cpuc is starting a hearings process for the code of conduct to be administrator of with the utilities, which will help level the playing field.

we will be actively involved in that. also, the cpuc -- i am in regular contract -- contact with senior people there, providing a performance bond that is required for cca to post. i made it clear we cannot launch our program without knowing what that mechanism would be and what that amount is likely to be, so we can make sure we are able to satisfy that. back toward the very end of last year, supervisor campos, general manager harrington, and myself met with the commission to make that known. earlier this week, general managers harrington and hale were invited to talk with cpuc commissioner simon. it was a meet and greet. they talked about the program and noted that one of the steps for being able to launch is the

cpuc to take action on that. that message was delivered. we are trying all the different tools to keep getting it to move forward, although unfortunately i do not have any news to report on that matter. that is what i generally have for a report, but i am happy to answer any questions you might have. chairperson campos: any questions for mr. campbell? if i may follow up on a couple of things -- on the issue of the opt out rates, i think it is good you are doing some follow- up additional work on that. i think we should get to as clear a number as we can. i think the rate will be lower than what we have discussed. i think it is good that we are doing what we are doing. my hope -- i do not know if that is a possibility, that we can have a clear idea of what that

number will be by the time we meet again as a commission. i do not know if that is possible. >> we can definitely start getting it more refined, in terms of the final number will ultimately will use. we will frankly be tinkering with that up until the last minute. one item that we are researching -- we had done some market research before to test a different question that we have been trying to apply toward it. we are considering doing some more targeted follow-up to help define that. in terms of the work the team has been doing, it is looking like -- it really depends on what types of customers you have. the lower usage customers, there opt out rate is expected to be the majority of folks sticking with the program. when you get to the higher users, getting over $15 a month premium, potentially, we are

expecting a higher proportion of those to opt out. it depends on the ultimate rate. that largely is why we are looking at the demographics of various areas we might be targeting. chairperson campos: if we can now hear from lafco staff. >> nancy miller, interim executive officer for the local agency formation commission. to follow up, part of the reason we are waiting for the board to take action on the contract is we also have in phase 2 the actual phase two issues that we are trying to make sure when we go to the board we have a complete package of -- not only what we are launching, but what we are expected to do. that is something we are working on. we have regular meetings to try to work that schedule so we have agreement on that.

on the cpuc, i drafted a letter for the senator and assemblyperson amiano. we just have to get on the state service, and one for the commission. we have to get on the cpuc service list, which i have not been able to complete yet. we will get the bond issue resolved as soon as possible. that is where that is. chairperson campos: thank you very much. >> jason fried, lafco staff. last month, we were talking about some of the bills coming up. i wanted to run you through the process. today is the last bill and the bill can be considered for this year. so there is not really a complete listing of all the bills. most bills are produced during the course of this week, going into today. moving forward, all those bills

have to sit around for 40 days. we will come back next month with a list of the few bills we think are higher priority that could affect llafco and chairperson campos: chairperson campos: supervisor avalos: -- lafco and cca. to give you an idea, it will 27 is the last day any bill is heard in committee, if it is a fiscal matter bill. most bills fall under that domain. if it is not a fiscal bill, it has until may 11 to get its final out of committee vote. everything at that point goes to the floor. between may 29 and june 1, all bills will be voted through the first house. all bills go through the assembly or the senate. if it makes it through, they repeat that process all over again, where the have the

committee hearing and the floor vote. if there are any bills that get changed between houses, they go back to the original house for approval of an up or down vote on the amendments. that is what the process looks like. we plan on coming back with any bills or legislation that will be on a watch list for us. he been mined bills can always get changed in the process. -- keep in mind bills can always get changed in the process, in a significant way, were originally it did one thing and gets changed later on. we may change that list over the course of the year. chairperson campos: do you have any questions on any of the items in item three? if i may add a point to the timing of when the shell contract and the resolution that is accompanying it will come before the board, it was important for us to make sure

that the balanced a need to move quickly, but at the same time to address some of the concerns that were raised by the advocates. i want to make sure we are mindful of those concerns. that is one of the reasons the time is working out the way it is. it also allows us to wait and see some of the things that happened at the california puc. that said, i think we are headed in the direction that makes a great deal of sense. i want to thank the staff and think the -- thank the puc and the advocates for their input on this. unless there are comments or questions, why don't we open it up to public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. eric curkes, -- burkes, san francisco green party and our

city. i want to let folks know that advocates do, when we have been coming together on this and discussing this -- we definitely do want to see this finalized and under way by the end of august. we have a sense of urgency about this. we do not think waiting until after then would be a great idea. as to the improvements on opt out, it sounds like sf puc is headed in the right direction. however, in advocate discussions, we would see anything that is about a 25% up out rate, we are aiming for something pretty low. to that end, and also with regard to timeline, we know from being in stakeholder meetings with the sfpuc and local power, as the local buildup work

matures and as we get toward the rfp stages of that work, we will learn about the potential, with phase one and 52 -- and face to, bringing in customers that would bring in higher rates and not opt out, whereas concurrent with the buildup rollout, we could have a phase two of customers that would be more likely to opt out at the beginning. between that and the idea of a tiered rate, we need to make sure we take sufficient time that the build out work is completed sufficiently enough, probably in mid to late spring, so that we can elucidate all of that and know where it is at. definitely, we want to get this underway by fall. but we also want to make sure, especially because of the optima rate, so we can get that rate

way down, so we do not lose customers we can never get back. we are at a pleasant place right now, and that is a good thing to say. we will be inviting ground -- we will be breaking ground on inviting projects. chairperson campos: is there another member of the public who would like to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank the staff, advocates, and everyone who has done tremendous work in moving this forward to where it is. if we can make a motion to

continue this item to the call of the chair? a motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner mar, who has joined our meeting. we can take that without objection. >> item number four, update on the voting process, including rent-choice of voting -- ranked- choice voting. chairperson campos: last meeting, we directed staff to review the voting process of san francisco, including looking at data and information relevant to the rank choice of voting system. i wanted to take this opportunity to hear directly from lafco staff and to get an update on where that is. >> jason fried, lafco staff.

we put together a list of questions and sent them to the department of elections. they have since responded back. some of the questions, looking at some of the data, has posed some of the other data. i am creating a follow-up list of questions for them to answer. we have been doing a lot of data collection, looking at finding other reports out there on voting systems in general. there has not been as much done, at least on san francisco specifically, looking at data. there was one done a few years ago. i will reach out and see if they might be doing an update on that. this has been mostly data collection on the report. because we were looking at multiple different subject matters, each subject is a report in itself. you are not necessarily going to use the same data as you do for voter turnout.