>> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods

and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping

them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their

relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for

people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on

the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with

to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the

opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that

. >> the meeting will come to order. this is march 16, 2018 regular meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission. i am sandra lee fewer chair of the commission. i am joined by vice chair, cynthia pollock on my right and hill r hillary ronen on my left. i would like to thank the staff of sfgovtv for recording today's meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, please make sure to silence any electronic devices such as pagers and cell phones, and speaker cards

should be filled out and returned to the chair. >> supervisor fewer: do any commissioners have any changes to the february 27, 2018 minutes? >> no. >> supervisor fewer: no. okay. seeing no changes, i will open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number two? seeing none. public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> supervisor ronen: i make a motion to approve the minutes. >> supervisor fewer: motion by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner pollock. minutes are approved. madam clerk, call item number three. >> clerk: item three is appointing two members to the local agency formation commission. there are two seats and two applicants. >> thank you, chair fewer. members of the commission, angela calvillo. i am the interim administrative

officer, thank you. regarding the consideration of appointing one public member and one alternate member to the lafco, let's first discuss the public seat. it's our recommendation to the appointment to the public seat be continued until the next lafco meeting. three affirmative votes are required to appoint to that seat, and commissioner pollock may not vote for herself, so we're requesting the continuance so that you're able to consider appointing to the alternate seat, and in the meantime, commissioner pollock will remain as a holdover pursuant to the government code and to the lafco's policies and procedures. regarding the alternate seat, it is possible for the commission to remove the current alternate from the public seat, as you know, removal can occur at any time, and for without cause. the commission may pain a new commissioner -- excuse me, a new alternate to this seat, and this individual should be able

to assist lafco in its decision to fill the public seat. we've posted a vacancy notice for the alternate seat, and we have an applicant. she is here today. her name is miss shanti singh, and she is here to provide some comments. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> commissioner calvillo: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: miss singh. >> hello, commissioners. i'm just here to give a little bit of background about myself as an applicant. so my name is shanti singh. i've been living in san francisco for four years, five years, something like that. i am a woman of color, i am a daughter of immigrant public schoolteachers, and i am a beneficiary of critical school programs in my youth. right now, i work primarily in advocacy for truly affordable housing, first moon lighting while i was working in the private sector, now full-time.

i am the development and communications coordinator for tenants together. i am also a steering committee member and cochair to yet to affordable housing. as someone who advocates for robust public programs i am very excited by lafco's potential to tackle these programs in our city and distribute equitiablely distributive progress. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any comments? >> supervisor ronen: sure. hi. thank you so much for your application. i'm really excited about it, and i'm just wondering what drew you to applying for a seat on lafco. what drew you to work on lafco. >> as a member of dsa, one of the things that we focus on is just expanding programs in our

city, and the one thing that we are really, really passionate about, we're passionate about a lot of stuff, we're passionate about cleanpowersf, and public banking. we just had a little happy hour a couple days ago. it was a great success. yea, happy hour, but these are things that we believe that are stepping stones to projects delivering better public services to people in san francisco. even publishes like cleanpowersf, clean banking, they have intersectional effects on all of the other work that we do, especially housing and land use, but also on, you know, continuants rights, immigrants' right, etcetera, and all these things are connected, and i think that's really something we can accomplish at lafco. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. commissioner pollock?

>> commissioner pollock: thank you so much for applying. when i saw your application, i was so excited. >> yea. >> commissioner pollock: i think that when you talk about the intersectional part of race and class and sort of the ripple effect of programs, it makes me think also how that's very similar to the way that lafco is structured in the sense of how our state programs and private, public, different areas of city government that -- that overlap in a way that aren't handles or have oversight from any one particular area, and so i think that's something that lafco has done really well is to provide a sort of holistic view of different things. and cleanpowersf, that and other projects that we've worked on, really do hit that nail on the head. and i was wondering what

type -- or how you see your role on the -- a public seat, connecting with communications so that you provide that sort of holistic view and can bring those, like, community thoughts and concerns to this body. >> yeah, yeah. and that's definitely one of the things when i first got into housing activism in san francisco specifically, i very quickly learned that you know, i experienced intersectionality firsthand. you might be working on a housing issue, but you have housing issues, you have environmental issues, you have to work with the mayor's office of housing. there's so many different things that intersect. over time i've tried to build relationships with people who are working on different issues. primarily my focus is housing, but that means i'm working with environmental justice work,

with tenant raise work, but even things like parks and other things that intersect with land use. i think one of the things as a member of the public that i can do is really make myself available in a way that i have before. obviously, i have some existing relationships through work that i've done in the past, but really make myself available to -- and specifically reach out on this sort of intersectional front to really look at all angles of a particular angle or projector initiative that we're working on and see -- it might not be intuitive at first, but what do you think about a public bank or how does cleanpowersf impact you if you're not specifically working for an environmental justice cause in your community? so i think as a member of the public that i got my job is to basically take all of the commentary and turn it into something that's actually a proposal, and so that's what i'm really looking for is just basically deepening relationships across that

sector. >> okay. we have a lot of entities that engage this body a lot about cleanpowersf specifically, and i'm excited about working with someone that can also engage on projects that we're taking on, you know, looking at different areas that this body will study and hopefully push forward to some initiatives. i'm really excited, and i was hoping that the person that comes into this seat would be a partner not only with those advocates, but also with me so that we're -- we're engaging the public and also representing what they really -- what they really want. >> yeah. i'm excited, too. >> supervisor fewer: so i would like to open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number three? >> hello, commissioners.

eric brooks, san francisco green party, californians for energy choice, san francisco clean advocates, and especially in light of this particular applicant, want to strongly represent from our city san francisco which works on a whole spectrum of environmental and social justice issues and consumer issues that after hearing those comments and that cv, i would strongly support appointin appointing miss singh to this body. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. seeing no other public speakers, public comment is now closed. commissioners, can we have a motion to approve shanti singh to join lafco in the alternative seat number seven? >> do we have to first vacate the seat? >> clerk: no, the term has

already expired, and you have authority to appoint the other person. >> supervisor fewer: okay. all right. >> supervisor ronen: then i would like to make a motion to appoint miss singh to seat number seven. >> commissioner pollock: i'd like to second that motion. >> supervisor fewer: that's great. moved by commissioner ronen, and seconded by commissioner pollock. without objection, shanti singh's application is approved. welcome. madam clerk, please call item number four. >> clerk: madam, can we also continue consideration of seat number six. >> supervisor fewer: oh, that's right. seeing the recommendation also from our administrative -- interim administrative officer, i suggest that we vote on item number six at the next meeting when we have a full contingent to actually execute that vote. >> clerk: that meeting would be on april 28, 2018. >> supervisor fewer: on april 28, 2018. is you trech. madam clerk, can you please read item number four.

>> item number four is a status activities report and a status update on the cleanpowersf program. >> supervisor fewer: i do believe that we have a brief staff presentation from mike hyams of the san francisco public utilities commission. is he here? not here today? okay. then can we hold this item until the end of the meeting if mr. hyams attends and wait for his attendance? thank you. so madam clerk, can you please call item number five. >> item number five is consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 2018-2019. >> supervisor fewer: i'd like to recognize interim administrative officer angela calvillo who has a presentation for us. >> at the request of the commission, i'm here today to provide the lafco updated budget and expenditure status.

i have three slides for you. it is also in the packet. the first two slides deal with the carrie forwards. the lafco general fund balance on slide two, you've seen this before. it shows the general fund appropriation and the year end over the years 2015 through 2018. i have to credit our office's admin deputy for kcollating al of this information. the current balance is 1 # 1,000 -- okay. i just -- want to just give him a moment to provide me with a more up to date -- okay.

oh, good. okay. so we have here -- i'll just repeat that the current available balance is 220,000, better news. the mou between lafco and the puc for this work order was extended through june 30th, 2019. very good news. on slide three, you've seen this slide recently. it shows the general fund appropriation expenditures and the balance for lafco over the years. this table does, however now set aside the reserve approximately 45,000. it is 15% of the annual budget. that is established in lafco's pal. in fiscal year 2017-18, expenditures balances is updated, and the current balance is 127,000. as a side note, as our last meeting, i indicated that as the clerk of the board in presentation of the board of supervisors budget, we asked

for the statutory amount for lafco, which it is entitled to as a place holder of 227,000. if lafco determines that its budget request is actually lower than that then we would just make the corresponding adjustment at the appropriate time during the june budget presentation. thank you, supervisors -- commissioner. slide four shows this year's expenditures as of february 28th. on the general fund side, lafco spent approximately 94,000 to date this year. the executive director's salary and benefits include his separation payout of approximately 18,000. lafco clerk and the clerk of the board staff support cost total approximately 21,000 and legal services is approximately 39,000. please note that the cost of services of other departments, such as sfgtv, risk management

and the department of technology will be bailed later in the fiscal year and is not yet reflected on the table. we expect approximately 17,000 to be associated with those services. on the kr ca work order side, the only cost charged as of february 28 is approximately 4,000, $3,908 for director's salary and benefits incurred prior to his separation, and a refund of 2,000 received from the marin clean energy for an incomplete portion of the study that lafco paid for in fiscal year 2015-16. i'm available for your questions. that concludes my presentation. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, any questions? okay. commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: miss calvillo, i have a question. in regards to the place holder for the 297,000, could you tell me when we must make a decision

on the return of the items? could we approve a budget at our next meeting for the 297 and have a contingency. >> through the chair to commissioner pollock, the answer is yes, i will not have to go back to the board of supervisors budget committee until june, so which is why generally it isn't -- the previous executive officer is here, jason freed. i think you determined your budget during the month of may, so you have some time. >> commissioner pollock: and then -- i mean, my goal or hope is that we will have staff in place to look at our drk-at our plans going forward in terms of creating a more robust budget and i would assume that you would work with our staff to do that? i think my concern is just making sure that we have an idea of that before may? but if not, if you would be

available to work with our chair to create a sample budget or a proposed budget? cal c >> commissioner calvillo: i would be happy to work with anyone at any time even if i'm not the interim executive officer. >> commissioner pollock: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: commissioner ronen, any comments? let's hope this up for for public comment. is there any public comment on this item? >> jason freed, private citizen. the way the budget process works for lafco is by may 15th, you have to pass a proposed budget, and then by june, you have to pass a final budget. so there's two steps. you have to have all of your agencies that fund lafco, which is actually the city and county of san francisco can look at the budget, can make comments back, and then, you make a final determination at the june meeting. although that's the end of the line. it doesn't mean you can't do it beforehand, but given where you

guys are at, as long as you hit it by may 15th for your proposed budget, you'll be fine. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other public comments? seeing none, public comments are closed. so commissioners, in light of the last couple comments we had, i would like to mission a motion to table this item until the next meeting. >> seconded. >> supervisor fewer: okay. great. thank you very much. so moved by myself, i guess, commissioner fewer, seconded by commissioner pollock without objection. the lafco budget for fiscal 2018-19 year item has been tabled. thank you very much. madam clerk can you call item number six. >> item number six is the interim administrative officer's report. >> supervisor fewer: do we have a report, miss calvillo. >> madam chair, angela

calvillo, interim administrative officer. i would like to make one comment. i appreciate the help of teresa stricker. she has guided us through the process of changing of legal services and has assured us that all of the files on hand have been transferred to the public law group and everything seems to be in order with our legal services. >> supervisor fewer: that's great. thank you very much. are there any public speakers for this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, can you please call item number eight out of order. >> clerk: item number eight is an update on obtaining executive officer services for the commission and possible direction to staff. >> supervisor fewer: is there an update, yes, for miss calvillo. >> thank you, chair fewer, members of the commission. good afternoon. to recap our office has issued

an rfq for the solicitation of obtaining officer services. i would like to thank wilson tang who has managed the entire process. as you know the anticipated not to exceed contract is $75 an hour. the contract may have varying terms of length depending on lafco's length but in any case no longer than two years. we are glad to share with you the results of the rfq and to provide you with an update. our office has completed the rfq process for establishing a prequalified list for executive officer services and had issued a notice of intent to establish this list to the respondents on february 27th, as we mentioned at the last meeting. our panel received a total of three responses and have p

prequalified all three as the responses were determined to have met the minimum qualifications for disclosure and as a general consideration, because of city and county of san francisco administers payment of lafco contracts, respondents must complete all necessary city administrative requirements to do business as a condition prior to the potential contract award. the next steps for us now are to conduct interviews, negotiations and in consultation with the lafco legal counsel, prepare a contract. lafco has sole and absolute discretion whether interviews will be conducted, and i believe it has been directed through the chair that we conduct interviews of the respondents for the negotiations. and at this time, they are scheduled for next friday, and we have had the great assistance of commissioner pollock thus far, and of course your staff, commissioner fewer, and our legal counsel, miss

stricker, and our clerk, alisa somera. i'm available if you have i any questions. >> supervisor fewer: do any of you have any questions or comments? >> supervisor ronen: no. i just wanted to tell you that i appreciate your work in this process. it's been a long time coming, and i appreciate your work. >> supervisor fewer: and i just wanted to say i appreciate your work. >> commissioner pollock: i have a quick question. miss calvillo, first of all, i want to say that it's been delightful to work with you, wilson eng, it's been great to work with you. i didn't realize the scoring process for applicants, and i was excited to see a process in action. my question has to do with the advocates have asked if and when the list will be made public so that they could look at the applicants and weigh in.

do you know when that is? >> commissioner calvillo: we do know when that is, commissioner pollock, and i would like wilson eng to provide that information. >> wilson eng reporting to the current administrative officer. currently, the public document posted on office of contract administration website outlines the three top respondents or the three only respondents who met minimum qualifications, that that is a public document, and the three names are brian goebel, kelley croft, and plan west partners, incorporated. outside of that, at this time, we are subject to admin code. we can't disclose the actual response -- the bids yet until the time of contract award. that's what we've been advised. >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, i'd like to make a motion that we conduct a closed

session meeting before april 20th, and i can schedule that meeting with your schedulers if that's okay. so do i need to make a motion for that to schedule a special meeting? >> clerk: you need to take public comment first? >> supervisor fewer: oh, yes, i'm sorry. is there any public comment on this issue? seeing none, public comment is now closed. so colleagues, i would like to entertain a motion to conduct a special closed session meeting of this body before april 20th to be decided upon by the chair -- date to be decided upon by the chair. >> commissioner pollock: i have a quick question just in terms of scheduling. >> supervisor fewer: yes. >> commissioner pollock: would this be before or after the applicants are screened. >> supervisor fewer: this would be after the applicants have been screened. >> commissioner pollock: thank you. i'm available. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. so i've made a motion. can somebody second that motion? yeah. thank you very much. thank you. so this motion has been made by

commissioner fewer, seconded by commissioner ronen, and without objection, we take the motion to hold a special closed session meeting at the call of the chair before the april 20th meeting. thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call items seven and ten together. >> clerk: item number seven is discussion on lafco's strategic plan and ten is future agenda items. >> supervisor fewer: i realize that we are still in the process of hiring, but i think it would be good for us to discuss some of the possible projects that we are interested in. i'd like to open this up to comment to my colleagues. >> commissioner pollock: just carrying forward the discussion that we've had in terms of projects that would go forward, i would be really excited to see if we could ask miss stricker and miss calvillo if

we could talk about what the rfp would look like for some of the projects that we discussed in terms of special reports prior to having staff come on. you noi that we've talked ab t about -- i know that we talked about cca 2.0 and other possibilities, and when we talked about our proposed budget, how much we should earmark for those special studies and see what the process would be to begin either before staff comes on or at least begin the process before staff comes on or create a transition. >> commissioner calvillo: chair fewer, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim officer, it is quite possible for teresa and i and the staff to the chair to begin to future vision the capacity of the lafco based upon what we know today. i know that there was a

workshop that was handled, and there were some projects that were mentioned, and i know at some point, there's going to be a -- decisions made around what the priorities will actually be, and so what we actually know to date, we can try to present a report to you based upon what we know. and the rfp process, commissioner, you're interested in the timing of it or what it could look like. >> commissioner pollock: exactly, the timing of it and what it could look like. >> commissioner calvillo: so if we are aware of what our projects are, then, there would need to be some time taken with those projects to understand what the scope of services would actually be that would be expected to be provided. in the city and county of san francisco, rfp's can take up to 15 months. that being said, there are ways that we can try to speed up the process and certainly scopes of services that don't include

handling all of the approval authorities that would necessitate 15 months. so it's really going to be conversations with your offices on what the expected scope would be for the prioritized projects. >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. just answered my questions. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues in light of the items that we had at the retreat and workshops, there were some issues of concern to the the advocates, and one of those was private public partnerships. we've heard a lot about hospital services and also community benefits concerning hospitals and in the agreements. this is something that i'm very interested in, and i think it's within the scope of lafco to dive deeper into this topic. i am wondering if this is something that would meet your approval that we could

initially start to investigate what type -- just type of speaker we could have on this issue and dive a little bit deeper into what some of community benefits are. who sets the boundaries of the agreement, who monitors the agreement, what are the particular agreements in particular with hospitals, and if this is something you're interested in, i think it's something that i would actually like very much to explore within the lafco commission. >> supervisor ronen: and you're specifically talking about hospitals with nonprofit status who have an obligation of providing community benefits? >> supervisor fewer: yes. >> supervisor ronen: yeah, i think that's a great topic, and i'd be very interested in it. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> commissioner pollock: i think i would be interested also in exploring this topic and hope