understand how to use it. do you want to say anything? >> this is ian traut again. i would just like to add in traffic engineering, traffic safety, we call it the three e's to traffic safety: engineering, education and enforcement and education is really one of those three key pillars. and we've already spoken with the light house for the blind and they've mentioned the use of tactile maps because we are, as simon mentioned, we're making pretty significant changes to the lengths of the boarding islands and also the location of the transit stops, and -- and again, we're working through the strategy, but that is going to be really a key point for this project. >> thank you. and finally, i have one last question before we move to public comment. and so we've talked a little bit about the timeline for the project itself. in -- within that how long do you anticipate taking feedback from -- from the public about

disability access issues? >> so i'd say there are a couple different tracks of feedback. i mean one is going to be our environmental reprocess. there are very clear moments where we're going to get feedback on our draft eir. we're publishing one at the end of this year, and then, one about six months later. but we'd actually like to get more like design input as we're moving from this 10 percent percent conceptualization of market street towards 30% schematic drawings for market street, we want to make sure we are developing a plan for this buffer for the crossings, for the boarding islandeds, and that's where we need the feedback from the disability community. it's going to be a little bit of back and forth, because we need to find out what the concerns are, show them, do you think this is actually going to work. i would just call out walk sf recently hosted a meeting on

bicycle facilities in the city and interaction with pedestrian safety, that i attended with a lot of my colleagues, that i thought was very successful, and i was very heartened to hear at my table some representatives from the light house getting really interested in coming up with this idea of what's the tactile solution that's not 3 feet wide of detectible domes all along market street. we're going to have to tap into that interest to get good feedback, because we need that to be safe, and the only way we're going to be able to do that is a little bit of back and forth. >> so do you anticipate that's going to be going on for about six months. >> yeah, for about six months. we're going to be starting detailed design at the end of this summer. so april, may, june, july. i'd say six months is about exactly right. we really want to start to bring in focus what these improvements actually look like. there's a whole bunch of drawing that has to take place after that, but it's always our

intent to make most of the decisions early, because if you make them later, it just ends up costing money and time. so yeah, six months is a good estimate. >> okay. thank you. thank you. thank you. >> we'll definitely want you back in that time frame to hear about any updates and feedback you're getting from the community. so i want to thank you for being here, from our presenters, and i'm going to go ahead and open it up to any public comment on this agenda item. so do we have any requests for anyone to speak, any public comment? >> yes. >> oh, please come to the podium. thank you. >> i'm bob planthold. i've been a member of the citizens advisory committee for this second major phase for some time. it's been a learning experience for me, but i also want to tell you the staff have been very responsive and never dismissive

when i raise a question or make a suggestion about some accessible feature or some change suggestion. beyond that, i want to say that people who are representing other constituencies have been separatelily independently responsive. one example, janice lee from the bike coalition has come up with some suggestions that are supportive. i'm almost always the only person with a known disability present. there's room for more people with more disabilities to come, to attend, to show up, to make public comment. these are held typically at the 30 vanness offices of dpw, so that's vanness and market, with multiple muni lines intersecting, and it's after work, like 6:00 to 7:30 so

whatever job you have, you can get there. it's not every month, but you can come, make public comment. m.o.d. can get on-line and send it to you folks. i do want to say that separate from, in addition to enforcement regarding what has been already acknowledged as a bike anythiflagrant violation it's going to help if the board makes some resolution or public comment about the need for education and enforcement, and here's why. a couple of years ago i persuaded a then command staff police officer whose responsibility included that area to do a sting for a couple of weeks about bicyclists blowing through the midblock crossing between 7th and 8th, because i mentioned that's where the m.o.d., that's where the b.a.r.t. elevator is, that's where the muni crossing is. it happened for about two

weeks. and he was transferred to the equivalent of siberia that's not conducive for advancement career wise. he's back now in the mainstream of san francisco, but the point is, you need to make sure through some formal statement that education and enforcement of bicyclists is important and necessary on an ongoing basis so that police have that piece of paper to be able to show to anybody who says, well, bicyclists are being perpersecutpersecuted or being particularly picked upon. ain't so, but until you do it it tends to be looked at as individual, and therefore neglected. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this agenda item, please come forward to the

podium -- oh . thank you. go ahead. >> yes. i come to you with some background in this concern of pedestrian safety for our seniors and people with disabilities as i held that seat on the pedestrian safety advisory committee for ten years, serving under the will of the board of supervisors and the mayor. and i pose this question so tou and to tim. i did not hear at all in this presentation on the redesign of market street about inclusion of a.p.s. where will assistance devices be installed on the medians or the sidewalk with people with impaired vision to cross from the bus stop median or to the sidewalk? that was not described, and i am rather bewildered by that omission in this redesign of market street and other wide arterial streets in san

francisco that contain a median such as masonic, such as vanness avenue. where is it in market street? >> thank you. is there anyone on the bridge line as -- that would like to comment it? >> on the mayor's office of disability committee? >> yes, you are. >> yes, i'd like to have a word with the committee to express my means for disability change. i'm allowed three minutes, i think. >> yes, go ahead, please. >> when would i do that? >> now. you can start now. >> and who will be listening? >> right now, you're on the bridge line during the mayor's disability council meeting, so the council would be listening. >> when i speak on the dome, who will be listening to me? >> the mayor's disability

council plus the public that's attending the meeting. >> yes. i've been to the meetings before, but i'm not well enough to go to the meeting, and i don't drive anymore. so when should i start my three minutes? >> you can go ahead and start now, please. >> okay. my name is bruce steer. i'm a retired physician. i'm also the retired member of the california student legislature. i would like the council to look into the matter of handrails -- mandatory handrails on all public staircases. there are many staircases in the city of san francisco that do not have railings, and this, of course, is dangerous, a safety issue. public safety issue, especially for seniors and little children. handrails are mandatory by the

state law. give you an example of the one place that should definitely have handrails are the lower seats at at&t park. they do not have handrails. i addressed, and their lawyers won on appeals because the americans with disability act says they only deal with issues for disabled people, and obviously, there are a lot of people who are not disabled when they go to the stadium. but nevertheless, they should have handrails, which it's a mandatory state law, which they have evaded thanks to previous supervisors and mayors who allowed the permit to go through. thank you. >> thank you, sir, for your comment. any other public comment at this time. >> there's one more.

>> oh, thank you very much. >> zach, are you on -- >> yes. >> hold on. who's on bridge? excuse me. we have somebody coming up to the podium. would you mind holding? >> i don't mind holding at all. >> go ahead. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here again. my name is ann yeekw kwan. i was to echo what council member sosounni mentioned about having bicycle lanes, and having clear signaling when bikes cross and pedestrians cross. i used to live in santa barbara shabarbara -- santa barbara, and they used to have a huge range of bike lanes. they tried to put in signage

which was not well followed by the bicyclists, so perhaps more positive engagement, which i'm hearing -- i'm heartened to hear has already happened between the disability community and the bicyclists coalition, i think that would be helpful so there's more education and proactive rather than reactive measures. second of all, to the point of creating or placing way finding indicators on the corner prior to crossing the island busloading zones, i think would definitely be helpful because i personally have had and have heard from others, and they would cross krots, not knowing what buses or amenities are on there, and that created more confusion and congestion, so those are my kind of feedbacks and comments. thank you again. >> thank you for your comments. okay. i'd like to go back to our call

canner on t er on the bridge line. are you still there? >> yes, i'm still there. >> there's another caller on the bridge line. zach, are you still there? >> yes. >> yes. go ahead. >> hi. my name is zach carnesies, and i really appreciate the presentation that was given. i think this is a very ambitious and important project, and i -- it sounds like you really care about disabled input, which is really heartening to hear. however that's not always been my experience with sf mta. i tried to attend the access disability hearing and was denied because they do not provide a bridge line, and i was told someone would call me that i could join that meeting, and no one did. in addition, it's been very difficult to engage with matthew west, except he's been quite dismissive about a lot of concerns i've brought up with sf mta, and it's also taken a lot of e-mailing and calling

and talking to supervisors -- or within the customer service of sf mta to get any sort of issues addressed around disability needs and accessibility issues that i've had. it's taken a lot of persistence and multiple e-mails and calls, and so i'm interested in how details -- the actual details of this project, how the disabled voice will be -- will be reached out and heard specifically with the notices that are posted by sf mta. i've noticed they're often very small, often 12 point or 14.23 ont, very small, so people in wheelchairs can't read them easily. i've never seen a notice from the sf mta saying we really want to hear your voice, we really want to do our best to help you come to our meetings. it's usually this is what we're

doing language, and if you have a problem, call us. it would be really nice to see a more positive dialogue encouraged, and for the public at large could be reached out to specifically and not just organizations that work within san francisco and nonprofits. and again, i really want to say, i think this project sounds terrific. it sounds like you really care, and i am super happy to hear that, and i just want to be involved. i'm a member of the public. i have disabilities, and i found being a wheelchair user, trying to be involved in this has just become -- has seemed very difficult for me, and it's been a very difficult challenge, and i'd love to see some of those challenges alleviated and so more people can be included in those conversations because it is a great conversation, and this is a great discussion happening here today, and i'm very happy to be a part of it. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comment. we're going to go ahead and close public comment on this agenda item, so thank you,

everyone. i'm sorry. is there someone else that has a public comment? okay. thank you so much, staff. okay. we're going to move onto public comment, item number nine. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of mdc, and i believe we have a speaker's card. >> we do. hillary brown. hillary brown. that was for early? okay. okay. so we've got it. >> all right. we just wanted to make sure we can fit her in. thank you so much. okay. is there any other public comment not on today's agenda? okay. please come up to the podium. thank you. >> there will be an event celebrated on may -- wednesday, may 9th, held by sf mta and senior disability action at the intersection of geary and

masonic regarding the changes that sf mta has made at that intersection and they're subsequently doing all over the city that makes it safer for pedestrians to go from curb to curb. it is at 11:00 a.m. that the this event occurs at the intersection of geary and masonic, so that's a little under three weeks from now, and at the event, you can hear, and it will be told to all from various speakers about how that intersection and all intersections in this city will be safer in the timing from someone to go from curb to curb on wednesday, may 9th. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? okay. we're going to go ahead and close public comment. we're going to go to information item number ten,

correspondence. staff, heather? thank you. >> there is no correspondence. >> okay. we're going to move onto discussion item number 11, council member comments and announcements, and i believe council member williams has an announcement. >> i do. i'd like you to save two wonderful dates in the month of june. as you know, pride is coming up. our pride week is coming up, and the light house is going to be very involved this year, putting on a wonderful show. last year, we were marching in the parade. it was so much fun, and we thought how wonderful it would be if we invited other members of the disabled community to join us, so it could be as an individual, it could be as a group. so reach out to those associate -- those of you who are associated with community providers in -- with other disabilities. we'd very much like to have us sponsor you going in that

parade. we are going to have two events at the light house, one on june 21st. would it be an imposition for miss laura miller to tell us a little bit more about that? is she in the audience? >> yes, she's approaching. >> thank you so much, laura. i know i'm really going to be in a lot of trouble after this. >> thank you, miss miller, for your im3 romptu. >> my name is laura miller, and i am with the light house for the blind, and we will be marching in the pride parade. that will be fully accessible for anyone who wishes to join us. and then, before that, on june 21st, we will be hosting a happy hour for our community at the light house and having a panel discussion about the intersectionality of what it means to live at multiple marginalized identities, and

we'll be talking about employment and housing, health, relationships, all of those kind o kinds of things, so we'd really like to invite the lgbt community to the light house for those two events. >> thank you, laura. now you know why i could not remember all of that. >> thank you, council member williams. i know we want to adjourn, but i wanted to read something that was interesting. the sf mta, multiaccessible advisory committee, mac, is a group of 21 seniors and customers with disabilities who regularly meet to discuss sf mta services and that was mentioned in public comment earlier to provide input on public accessibility issues and is dedicated to maintaining and expanding the accessibility for san francisco public streets and public transportation, and they definitely like to hear from the disability and senior community. so if you're interested in

attending these meetings or applying to serve on the committee, please contact heidi seratin at heidiseratin@gmail.com for more information. i want to thank everybody for coming to our meeting. great exchange of ideas and information. i hope you come to our next meeting, and thank you everyone for attending, and we're going to adjourn it. bye-bye.

>> being a pedestrian in san francisco is not easy for anybody. >> [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. >> i have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. it is very hard. >> sometimes people get half way across the intersection. >> you have to be alert because there is always something coming up that you need to know about. >> i learned to listen to the

traffic patterns. sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided i'm going to cross, too. i get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. >> we need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. the world needs to be open. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when

the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything

but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more

successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush

transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable. nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. here is another problem we have with street trees. if i have i was a person blind,

this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. >> we don't want to create hazards. >> sometimes vendors put sidewalk cafes where people push the chairs too far out. >> sometimes it can be impassable. so much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or walker to go by. >> san francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well. they have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. if people can find thraeur way

around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. >> we don't want anything special. we want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books now. people can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have 48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. we will all get along better. >> although san francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. that doesn't mean we can't

continue to improve upon ourselves. >> the public has a clear are -- of travel. we can't be every to make sure that is the place. we have to rely on the place. call 311. give them your name. that goes into a data base. >> it is difficult, still, um to make the case that the disabled community isn't being represented. in some ways we are not. we have a long way to go. >> the city of san francisco is using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city

and cross streets safely. . >> 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