working our way down to it and so that will be an impact if we should do this because we will be making sure that we are keeping that money set aside and not spending it, unless there is a direct action with the understanding that they are drawing out of that reserve fund and need to build that fund back up to get it to the proper amount in order to be in that commission's policies should we adopt something today. and one issue that i think that i did find and one of the commissions and i incorporated the language in our, for the purposes of the language, although that you can remove it if you so desire, and one of them, that specifically acknowledged that the staff, when they leave have things that are cost and associated with that, and such as the pay out and the vacation time and the things like that and make sure that the reserve has enough money to pay for all of the staff leaving assuming that they will leave on the last day of that fiscal year, if you leave on the last day, a lot of places what you do is pay out of person and it will take a month or two to find a person to replace them and all of a sudden you balance it by not

having the person there and that pays for the vacation time and given the fact that how they currently operate and how the position and is one that is established in a way where it could send any fiscal year and right now we have through the next fiscal year and we are okay for now and it will likely end and if i leave at this point, you will be paying out and not necessarily have much money left in the account for that and so having a reserve fund that is set aside to make sure that you are paying out and not going into debt for the very end of the year is that something, and needed. and having said that, even if you went with the ten percent amount of the lowest, of the lafco you will actually have more than enough to cover my expenses of the departure should that ever occur. and so i will leave it at that. >> okay, thank you. >> commissioner breed? >> thank you. i do understand that for some time, lafco has had a reserve, and we usually keep a certain amount of money in the reserve account, but, i guess, i am

just not clear as to why we need to establish a policy with those minimum reserve, so since they are seems to always be a reserve, that exists within the lafco budget. >> there is always been a reserve, probably because the first few years of lafco we got a money from the city and county of san francisco and it sat there being unspent and when i started working for lafco i believe that the reserve was somewhere up to 1 million dollars and we are now down to or we will be at the end of the fiscal here, $300,000, and we are doing it as a way to help the city and county, and many of those years were difficult budget years and we are not going to take any money we will spend ourselves down and every given year, even though we have the fund that will be going away as well, and unless we get an extension of the mou and we are going to get to a point where we don't have any money left in the reserve and so setting up the policy

now, will establish and we continue to spend down which is what my goal will be to take the least amount that we need from the city and county until we get the reserve to a respectable level and by setting a policy, we will be establishing what that level is, and because what i want to keep in mind is if we budget ourselves should there be a last m inthat needs to be done, we will have a reserve always in place to make sure that we can do the things at the end of the year that we will not be able to do otherwise, it givens us the flexibility and you are correct, up to now we have not had a need for policy but i could see one coming in the next couple of years and maybe not this upcoming year and a year or two after that and this establishment now will be helpful for us. >> for the next several years you will be living off of the reserve and moving down and we could, actually, be using a different source of funding to pay for lafco activity and here we will with this policy, and we will set a floor for what the minimum will be in our reserve. >> correct. >> as we move on to another source. >> and as we go back to the

city and the county funding source, and as our funding source for lafco, we will have a reserve set in place, to protect ourselves in case there was an over run of cost for some reason. >> and so, just for clarification, so, clearly, if we have say, a requirement, that we said ten percent of a certain dollar amount as a reserve, we need to go into those reserves how are we going to refill it, so that it goes back to what we expect to have as a policy for a minimum reserve? >> what you should do is spend it down in one year and with the following year's budget your goal will be to make sure that you have enough money left over, at the end of the year that you are balancing that out and you are saying, hey, we diped in $5,000 into the reserve and the following year you will have a line item that will be repaying the $5,000 is one way that you can do that. >> i mean, and i guess that i

just, i just don't see that it is establishing a policy is really necessary. since we received our annual allocation, and the goal is that if necessary, it does not need for this allocation for whatever purpose we will budget for that. >> correct. >> what you get is sometimes you will get something at the end of the fiscal year, occurring. and for example, my departure could end at the end of a fiscal year and once we are off of the current reserve being as flush as it is and we are down to the regular amount, you could end up if you don't have any reserve left over, not having the ability to pay the package to the staff when they leave, and you are all of a sudden going into debt and that is not good and there are ways for the county to loan money to lafco if it was so needed but having a reserve will keep that process from having to be discussed but to make sure that we are maintaining our own budget in ourselves and having the extra should there be an over cost run and like i said,

the policy to set up one is up to the commission to decide. >> okay. >> okay. thank you for your report. and presentation, and we will go into the public comment, on this item. regarding the san francisco reserve policy. and yes? good afternoon, once again. commissioners. >> and first, just to speak in favor of what your staff has recommended and i think that we are getting closer to game time with clean power sf and there are going to be needs for the staff and the contractors to do the work and some of that might be surprise work and i think that it makes a lot of sense what the director freed is proposing. and all right, i guess the executive officer, freed is proposing. and so, we would support that. and i would also like to red flag something for you. with regard to the funds that we get from the san francisco public utilities commission, i believe that even though it was not necessary for the lafco to

do this, there was a memo of understanding or agreement formed with the puc about the use of the funds and the responsibilities and that i believe is up next year. and so now would be the time to start exploring and making sure that that agreement stays in place. and so that we don't find ourselves next year, with the san francisco public utilities commission saying, well, guys, there is funds are not available to you any more, because the agreement is no longer in place. so, i just wanted to red flag that and so the folks are paying attention to it. >> thanks. >> thank you. any other member of the public that would like to comment come forward and seeing none, we will close public comment. and colleagues, i am actually, i know that we are going to go through maybe a couple of more years before we get to the end of the reserve, i actually would support a policy that would put a certainly percentage on it and i actually would be fine on the high end,

25 percent, or it is a small, and it is not a small fund, it is not a large fund, and so, to me having a policy of about 25 percent and which possibly could be about 75,000 dollars, or $300,000 reserve, and actually, i am thinking as i am talking. so i am probably like a 15 percent reserve to me would make the sense and to me would be around $40,000, and i could probably live with something like that and we would not get to that until we actually have you know, utilized what is in the existing reserve and the reserve policy will kick in, when we have another sort of funding that would pay for the general lafco activity and so it would not be like we are living off of the reserve any more and the other four, i will live with a 15 percent and i am willing to go up and down on that and probably more up than down? >> commissioner breed? >> and i am okay with it.

i just want to make sure that what we are trying to do, as we relate to developing a plan, and what we are trying to do as we relate to implementing that plan and a joining marin or all of the things that we want to do and i don't want this to have an impact on the expenses necessary to see those things through. and so i guess, i am okay with establishing a reserve, but, i'm not okay with doing it at the expense of what we are trying to accomplish. i don't want that to create a difficulty for us. so that is the only issue that i will have, but i am open to the possibility of doing it. >> yeah. and i would be concerned about what happened to it and mr. freed will respond to that. >> yeah, the one thing to keep in mind is what we are talking about is the general fund reserve and not our cca fund reserve and they are two different accounts of money and while i, and i am looking at it here and i am realizing that the policy itself is not stated but if you stick it into the

lafco budget section, it does not talk about the funds and it does not impact that in any way and this will be the general fund reserve, rather than the lafco cca fund and if we are going to set that up, can you make sure that is clear in the language? >> thanks. >> okay, colleagues, very good. >> and o, i put on 15 percent, and i could go a little bit higher, or if the people don't want to have a reserve, let me know. and we will have it and i will motion that we put in this language, but a percentage that we will put in will be 15 percent. okay? and the other colleagues and we will take that without objection. >> actually, if you are wanting to approve the draft language that we put in here, miss miller is saying that we might want to establish one in the draft forms and the 1.51 is establishing the annual budget and might want to say when establishing the lafco budget

and not the cca fund, and then we could adopt the draft language that is in here with the 15 percent number added in and i think that will be addressed to commissioner breed's concerns. >> okay and this will effect the next fiscal year and currently we have the lafco for the next fiscal here is how much? >> and when i looked at it, and two or three months ago, we were in the 350 range, i believe, and that is, you know, we probably spent that down a little bit and so my estimate is that we will end to $300,000 to $310,000 in the reserve account, and if we establish this today we are above the policy and i would not be putting any warnings to you, probably at all next year, it will be the year after that when we are setting up the budget that we want to make sure that we are balancing things correctly. >> and so by adding this language we are not setting up a reserve on that amount of money already? >> we are setting up that we have an amount and we are meeting that and we have more

than what we need in that account and so as we are moving forward, what i will imagine and this is just thinking ahead and not out loud. is not this upcoming fiscal year, the budget has been decided the following fiscal year, we probably are going to need to get some money from the city and county of san francisco and maybe we don't ask for the three. and the 300,000 is still caping that reserve and so we are spending it down appropriately and we have the amount correct in the reserve, and accepting the full amount and balancing the things out. >> according to the language and the majority of the vote of the commissions, the money can't be used and so there will have to be an actual vote for anything to go below. >> i will read into the record

the language, 1.65, when establishing the annual budget, lafco shall at a minimum hold, 15 percent of the annual budget, or enough to cover costs for the department staff severance pay whichever is greater and i think that there is another language to add. >> yeah. and that first sentence is when establishing its annual lafco budget. >> okay. >> when establishing its annual lafco budget, it shall hold in the reserve account, 15 percent or enough to cover the cost of the severance pay, whichever is greater by the majority vote of the commission shall the money be used with the understanding that it will be replenished in the future. >> okay. so the colleagues, we can take that without objection, and great. thank you. >> and actually, that is a very responsible for us to do. and so. >> item seven, executive officer's report. >> and i wish you all a happy

pride weekend. >> happy pride to you as well. >> public comment on the item number seven? >> general public comment, is the next item. >> yeah. great. >> and just, using the opportunity of the executive officer's report because it is an action item, eric brooks, representing san francisco green party, our city. and san francisco and the clean advocates of the co-coordinator of the choice and on the ab 2145, issue, you might remember that you and the executive officer prepared a letter to your almost to send to sacramento, assembly members about ab 2145 and now that ab 2145 has changed the coalition has to once again, to the senate, get a whole new series of opposition letters. and we could conceivablely ask you in july for this and

however, the senate assembly will be taking this up in very early august again. and so if there is a way for the before the july meeting, for you to do an action item and so that you, as the chair can work with mr. freed to send a new opposition letter to incorporate the new problems with the bill, and that will be good and so, you know, i will leave this open to mr. freed to make any recommendations, and what i would strongly recommend that we try to get a letter of opposition, very quickly to the senators, and if you get it to me, we have been in the conversation with senator leno and he wants to see such letters right away and so if you get it to us we can make sure that he sees it. >> thanks. >> thank you, i appreciate that and if we choose to right a letter, i want to just to state what our position will be, based on the legislation, and so it could be something, and a little bit different, but i think that what we want to see

as an out come and it will be what i think that will be the most appropriate and any other member of public that would like to comment. >> seeing none, we will close public comment. and our next item is general public comment. >> item number 8, public comment. >> any member of the public that would like to comment on any item related to lafco purview? and seeing no one come forward, we will close public comment, and or next item? >> item 9, future agenda items. >> colleagues, any future work for lafco? >> seeing none, we will go into public comment? seeing no member of the public come forward. we will close the public comment and our next item? >> ten, adjournment. >> colleagues, we are adjourned happy pride weekend to all. >> great.

>> a lot a ton with the community and we say to ourselves, there is this one and this one. we all compartmentalize them, we have our own agenda. our agenda is to create great work. if you are interested in that, you are part of our community. >> hello and welcome to brava theater. >> we are trying to figure out a

way to make a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone now. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons, from producing dance, theater, presenting music, having a full- scale education program, and having more than 50,000 visitors in the building almost every year. a lot of our emerging artists to generate their first projects here, which is great. then we continue to try to support figuring out where those works can go. we have been blessed to have that work produced in new york, going on to the edinburgh festival, the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things when you can watch artists who think there is nowhere else

that might be interested in you being a woman of color and telling your story and then getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. having artists have become better artists. what is. sheri coming back to brava, here you have this establish, amazing writer who has won a clue -- slew of awards. now she gets to director and work. even though she is this amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is being nurtured as a director and is being given some space to direct. >> the play is described as ceremony and -- where ceremony and theater me. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is like the completion of an important era. the importance of the ceremony

is to say, you are 52. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. really, here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me, in the sense of coming back 25 years later and seeing personally my own evolution as an artist and thinker. the whole effort to put the chicano or indigenous woman's experience on center stage is, in itself, for euro-american theaters, a radical position. because of the state of theater, it is a hard roll to hold up in institution. it is a hard road. i am looking at where we are 25 years later in the bay area, looking at how hard it is for us to strive to keep our theater is going, etc.

i like to think that i'm not struggling quite as hard, personally, but what i mean by that, the intention, the commitment. particularly, to produce works that would not be produced in other places, and also to really nurture women of color artists. i think that is something that has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work. ♪ >> when people talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go from what we have on our staff. we have a south asian managing director, south african artistic director, latino community out rich person. aside from the staff, the other

people, artists that we work with being a reflection of us, yes, the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that trend. when i came in, i tried to make it about the work that shows the eclectic mission district, as well as serving the mission. those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san

francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs

cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground

swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is

moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not

making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing,

kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stanup and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the

richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as

strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for