>> meeting will come to order. 2025 regular meeting of lafco i'm acting chair hope williams and joined by connie chan and isaac salvier. our clerk and i like to thank the stof of sfgovtv for broadcasting meeting especially

james and a lipsasm do you have announcements? lafco will allow in person comment and remote access. public comment will be traen on each item. those attending in person will speak first and then those on the line. if you wish to provide comment remote, the call in information is scrolling. when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but in listening mode only. when your item come up and public comment is called those in person line and up those on the phone dial star throw to be added to the speaker line. if you are on the phone, remember to turn down your tv and all listening device you may be using. alternateively you may submit comment in writing e mail them to myself the clerk.

or you may submit written comments via u.s. postal to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. if you submit written comment tell forwarded to the commissioner and includes per of the official file. thank you, madam clerk call the roll >> on the role chair williams >> aye. >> commissioner chan. >> present. >> commissioner sevier. >> aye. >> you have a quorum. >> thank you. call item 2. >> item 2, approval of the lafco minutes from the november 15, 2024 regular meeting. >> do any commissioners have other changes. to the minutes from the november 15, 2024 meeting? >> no. thank you. seeing no changes i will open is this up for public comment.

speakers will have two minutes. anyone wish to comment on item two. no one in the chamber ghee to the remote comment line. we have no speakers. >> seeing no public speakers public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> moved. second. >> moved by commissioner chan and seconded by commissioner sevier. call the roll. >> on item 2 commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner sevier. >> aye. >> commissioner williamsch >> aye. >> there are three aye's >> thank you without objection they are arkansas appointment of

khalid samerrae for local information. >> as this commission knows the end of left year our executive officer jirmy pollock resigned this commission watched his dedicated service the city has not since he was moved department of technology. but that upon means we must begin the process to find his replacement not guilty interim propose our policy analyst scammid samerrae be acting executive officer. we have the lafco legal council available to walk us through questions from commissioners. and -- seeing any can i open up for questions for, any questions. >> great. go ahead. >> thank you, chair williams. and i want to first thank i did not get a chance to thank our executive officer pollock for

his work with lafco. it is good to see he remains in government and take this opportunity to thank mr. samerrae for his on going contribution as for all the work he has done and pleased see he is legal to take the role for acting executive officer and want to be supportive of appointing him as acting executive officer and make the motion to move to appoint him. thank you. >> second. >> okay. seeing no further questions from colleagues open this up for public comment. yes. there are no individuals here in the chambers we'll move to remote line. there are no callers. seeing no public speakers,

comment is closed. is there a motion to appoint khalid samerrae as acting executive officer? >> moved. >> moved by commissioner chan and seconded by commissioner sevier. can you call roll. >> on item 3 commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner sevier. >> aye. >> commissioner williams. >> aye. >> there are three aye's >> thank you. so without objection khalid samerrae is appointing as acting executive officer. >> can you call item 4? item 4 is a chair person's report including update on the final study for the mid town park apartments. >> colleagues, our agenda states we are due for an update on the mid town park apartments final study. however we only just received a response letter from the mayor's office of housing and community

development. in order to give us an opportunity to review the letter i like to propose we continue this to the call of the chair and we will likely hear this at our mechanic meeting on march 21st. khalid do you have anything to add >> i'm working with consultants to do a full presentation on the final study. and then seth up a meeting with residents to debrief them. and the consultants wish to draft a response to the letter alcohol be on our agenda for march 21. >> colleagues, comments or questions? okay. i -- might have one. what -- and having reviewed the letter, do you have any general take aways?

any questions yourself or reflections? i would say mocd is interested in maintaining the community guidelines. for mid town. however they don't have the funding necessary to implement the recommendation in this study. and so -- its -- likely that unfund mandate like this one if they were to under take it could not be completely done by them as a department without action from the board. but -- the consultants will detail that and the costs at our next meeting i don't want to give the wrong information. thank you executive officer samerrae. one more time for my colleagues. okay. i will open this up for public comment.

speakers will have two minutes. >> thank you. seeing no one here we will move to the remote line. pause to see if we have callers. there are no speakers. >> seeing no public speakers comment is closed. is there a motion this be continued to the call the chair >> moved. >> second. >> moved by commissioner chan and seconded by commissioner sevier. call roll. >> on the motion to continue item 4 to the call of the chair, commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner sevier. >> aye. >> commissioner williams. >> aye. >> there are three aye's yoochl thank you. so without objection this item is continued to the call of the chair. can you call item 5. >> item 5 is general public comment. this is the time for members to address the lafco on matters that are within their jurisdiction but not on today's agenda. we have no one here in the

chamber we'll dp to the remote line to see if we have speakers. there are no speakers. thank you are madam clerk. no public speakers public comment is closed. can you call item 6. >> item 6 is future agenda items. colleagues are there any future agenda items to note? >> let's open this up for public comment. seeing no one here in the cham bore we will go to the remote line. and madam chair there are no speakers. >> public comment is now closed. there is no action to take to this matter. is there any other business before us today >> that concludes business. >> there will be no business we are adjourned

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concerts that we feature bay area women and gender artists. [music] [music] >> an education forward organization. and so advocacy organization. dedicated to closing the gender gap and the audio and production industries. >> started out of the lead answer, why is there a critical gender gap in this industry that started at city college. why are there so few in this

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