>> i. >> opposed? hearing none that motion passes option 3. >> have i got the right page? okay. so the task force suggested option 1 regarding authorized representatives ; is that right? and a >> yes. i think that is worth clarifying and having read former chairpersons hope memorandum coming her, she makes it clear better than i do the issue why am my response to 3 is garbled it's a bit of a in his

normal we need a knowledgeable representative we perform a valuable intense but unfortunately constrained fact finding admission we need someone to answer questions like what efforts were made to go through our staff persons e-mail for records we need someone that knows the answer like that this is a request we need someone knowledgeable about a complaint i'm mindful the possibility of this violation reaching the xhoiks is the rarest of the 3 am i wrong on that regard. >> they seem to be usually included in other violations. >> again, this is a scenario by

the time the results it's referred to ethnics we've admonished this is not working we need the inclines so you can tells you more and send someone that knows not only an authorized representative we'll have experience where someone comes and says we conducted a use but that is an unauthorized representative that is option 3 but not suite our concerns with the investigation of the complaint and everyone comes to the issues at play and little violations necessary. >> yes. we've had occasions where a staff person comes and reads a statement then be unable

to go beyond that didn't draft the statements had no improvements whatsoever in anything so there's not much we can do with that. >> i can't speak for the vice president but one frustration i think without clear allegations at the outset i know you don't write the allegations but they have a complaint it's not clear they come in and then sort of the allegations more so it's hard unless your peppering involved to answer those questions by clearly it does the statute permits a representative so there in i agree 2 will be helpful whoever went is prepared in order to be prepared if you

weren't involved you need to know the allegations to prepare to answer the questions that's a bit the republic so far as i can see. >> going back to how we were talking about issue number one but for the chair and mr. washing burn our clerk victor young and city attorney collaborate on a memorandum that isolates the issues it is better than what the complaint stated but it is still facilitating we do a lot of investigation and fact finding but that memorandum which goes out to the respondent if usually is good enough to put the respondent ordinance notice

who to send to respond to the allegations that railway and acknowledging we see a lot of complaints but railway you get an instance the person can't talk about it at all i can't help but thinking the representative the terminology is someone that knows what's going on who can give us some direction. >> what is that document called that they will get in advance of appearing before you you referred to it as a memorandum. >> i believe the memorandum it says memorandum on top from the city attorney and the administrator to the respondent. >> right and it is sometimes the complaint although the state attorney will say he's not sure what exactly the complainant wants

we'll have the relative law sections of the ordinance state law will site case law if there's some that is relevant and suggest lines of inquire to us and along with that our office supporting documents the complainant has provided and the respondent that's the package we get beforehand but the memorandum i rely heavily on it to starts thinking about the case before we have the hearing. >> this it is the city attorney's memorandum to the respondent? >> to the task force. >> to the task force. >> right. >> and does the respondent receive it as well? >> yeah. >> that is all part of the agenda package that's posted on our website in advance of the meeting. >> i understand it will be posted for the public but are

the respondents sending i'm. >> the respondents are sent a copy of the agenda prior to appearing at the task force hearing. >> we get a copy of the agenda but not the city attorney's opinion right up we have to pull that down off the website 5 days before the complaint. >> we also receive it 5 days before the complaint and the way we representative it it appears to be a ph.d and each the file number is a link as a disguised link i'm not sure have you ever tried to click on that. >> i put it in a binder and go through it is inclusive of the city attorneys write up. >> is that memo usually

sufficient to identify the allegations? in our experience >> no not necessarily no >> information comes in after we get that we generally bet get the notice of the meeting much earlier than the 5 days and so it comes to us to give us the heads up we need the task force it gives a statement of whose complaining and maybe a line about the complaint but not necessarily enough to know what the issue is. >> all right. >> unless the ethics commission things this is a moufrs it is at the outset of the procedure and the lady has not appeared but i know she's indated with sunshine

and public records request she's the representative that is variable when she comes to speak and assists us in naekt the issue in many cases it is not an issue aside from an abate like ms. christen batteries by records as the public right, of course the understanding it is of they start off in mover of us it requires a knowledgeable person. >> so if a person has to make a good faith effort to respond i'm sympathetic to wasn't ms. christen is saying if you don't know at the outset whether the

person violated the ordinance you and know what the allegations were. >> it is a mixed bag some are much clearerer than others if we file to send a representative in my experience how could you not send a knowledgeable representative you know we'll exercise discretion if so it so bad i get it i get that but if something is clear as one individual requesting a personnel file if so a pretty cut and dry records request within boundary then it's easier to find a violation well, a person didn't know what's going on. >> in terms of the condition

adapting a policy to clarify the means i think adding in a good faith be prepared to respond to the allegations i think it's fair and hefbable i don't know what the other members of the commission or chairman thinks any objection to that you look skeptical this concerns me. >> i'm just trying to think in terms of i mean good faith effort i'm trying to think in terms of the commission having one of those allegations before it and judging what is good faith and not good faith. >> should we say prepared to respond to those allegations in the city attorney's memo?

>> yes. >> at least take the responsibility. >> as long as that person is prepared to respond to the allegations in the city attorney's memo i'll leave it to you guys what it is called. >> with respect to the don't faith comments i think the assignment gets the bad faith should be presumed where the section would be an instance we've reflected over and over going again for a person to come and speak to us and they review refuse what's the prepared language. >> prepare to respond to allegations in the memo whatever

we call that memo what the name of it is so ms. christensen comes we'll download the package and she's prepared to address it if you guys raise thing not in there she'll go back but not being in violation for not answering the questions that's something i view as - >> i think that sounds like reasonable our usual scenario the department sends no one to the hearings. >> that's the other. >> that happens. >> that happened together r tonight. >> public comment an issue 3? is there a motion to adapt

option 2 as amended? >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? arrest hearing none that motion passes. >> thanks again to say task force and ms. christensen coming and the staff did a great job as well thank you thank you and mr. halfway in her nice to meet i and thanks again for the memo minutes. >> if i may i missed a typo i'd like to draw your attention on the bottom of page 2 the last photograph it was stated to have been two i think the word nice

belongs between the words nice and two. >> unbelievable any other comments on the minutes? public comment on the minutes? is there a motion to adapt the minutes as proposed to be amended? so moved >> second second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i opposed? hearing none that motion passes the executive director report. >> i'm not going to do highlights i know you have a plane to catch. >> no, no go ahead. >> actually i don't think i have anyway. >> don't blame me. >> in the mayor he put out his

instruction so dollars no catch for the city departments where does that leave us with outstanding positions i thought there was a reduction in we were i don't know if we were proposing it but prepared for it so staffing wise are we flu staffed. >> we have an investigative position we have the funding but didn't fill it because we didn't know if we could fund it but the budget distributors are the same and the fact we seldom have but we'll have a budget proposal in january. >> i don't understand does that mean because the position was not filled this year that the money was not paid for other position you've lost that money?

well we used a lot of it for other things >> i mean, there was no line item that said the money had to be used for that so we used it for staffing. >> you used a lot of it all of it. >> no. >> that you didn't use because of the mayors instructions you're not going to get. >> no, that was last year's budget the money is not in the budget year now we are not going to lose anything but last year, we used all but $30,000. >> so the question are you going to use the direction for the coming year. >> it depends on on our budget for the fiscal year that starts in july. >> is it your intention. >> i'm not anxious to ask you

to authorize more than one you additional staff. >> okay. >> anything else on the executive director report. >> public comment? items for future meetings? anything that the commissioners would like to add public comment? is there a motion to adjourn >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. that motion passes the meeting is adjourned

>> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first

moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i

work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody.

there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older

author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly.

>> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them.

i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ [gavel] . good afternoon. today is december 12, 2014. welcome to the san francisco local agency formation commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of the commission. the clerk is alyssa samir a madam clerk could you call the roll. >> commissioner avalos. >> present. >> commissioner breed. >> here. >> commissioner campos. >> commissioner crews.

>> present. >> commissioner lindo. >> here. >> commissioner mar ma. >>here. >> you have a quorum. >> let's go to the next item please. next item is approval of the lafco minutes from the october 24, 2014. >> any questions on the minutes colleagues? okay. we will go on to the public comment. seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] and could we have a roll call vote to approve the minutes or do we have to have a roll call vote i believe. >> you could take them unanimously. >> okay. very good. >> we need a motion and a second. >> commissioner lie commissioner breed breed and seconded and we will take that without objection. [gavel] . thank you. next item. >> item four is a community

choice aggregation. a status update on the cleanpowersf and enernex report and b -- >> [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. we are doing number 3 first. >> i'm sorry. item number 3. the 2015 lafco meeting schedule. >> okay. thank you. we have our director mr. fried. >> yes, jason fried your executive officer. in the packet you have proposed meetings for next year. we try to follow the fourth friday rule but when it doesn't occur with a supervisor's meeting and we moved those to the third or fifth friday and we take august recess same as the board and move it to the middle of the december to avoid the holidays so those are in there i checked with the supervisor's offices and checked with the

commissioners, the public seats. all the dates work. i know commissioner lindo had an issue with one or two of the dates but we could reach quorum on the dates listed so proposing that you go with those date scpis know that chair avalos you were wanting to have a discussion about start time of the meeting and possibly moving it up a little bit so i will leave that up to the commission to decide if you want to do that or not for next year's meetings or not. >> thank you. my issue is i have to run across the bay and meetings that end later get much more challenging so i wanted to see if we could have a start time at 1:30 o'clock instead of 2:00 o'clock which we currently have so that is my recommendation and seems like there's nodding heads that might be okay. commissioner breed. >> yes. i move that we change

the meeting time from 2:00 o'clock to 1:30 o'clock and approve the schedule. >> okay. we have a motion from commissioner breed. seconded by commissioner mar and colleagues we have that motion in the air. we're going to go to public comment on this item. any member of the public that would like to comment on the schedule for next year. seeing none. public comment is now closed and on the motion can we take that colleagues without objection? very good. schedule is approved. [gavel] . next item -- you already called it correct? >> yes. >> okay. presenting is barbara hale and jason fried. >> jason fried lafco staff again. once again the enernex report has been issued to us. we have a copy and distributed to all of you as well as the puc and the the general public as a whole. it's on our website.

there is a lot of good information in there. we took pretty much all of the comments we received during the draft period of the report and incorporated them into the comments and changed it for example -- one of the issues that the puc brought up was the issue that not all of these jobs are considered local, some are for projects for example in southern california, so one thing we did and went in and looked at the physical location of all these were and broke it up to a local and more regional and state job creation and broke the projects up and calculated them accordingly so we could get more local. we used the local hire ordinance to the definition of what is local and san franciscans getting jobs for as a good example considered local so in the final copy you now see the numbers broken up and all the projects broken up into regional