from lafco, but i think it's a good thing.timeline as the budget process for the board of supervisors and the city in general, what used to happen is the executive officer would provide me a ballpark figure from lafco that wouldn't be confirmed by lafco until june, so while we are, a city department, submitting our budgets to the mayor and controller as of yesterday, february -- yeah, thank you, 22nd, i asked the budget committee, and the committee has provided me permission to put in the statutory amount that lafco is entitled to, which is $297,342. so by the time lafco does determine its needs and actually comes up with a figure, if it's lower than that amount, then, we'll just adjust the department's budget by that amount. this will make things a little easier for us in our conversations with the mayor's and the controller's office, so with your permission, i appreciate your indulgence to do that today. the last thing i'll say is that i'm the interim officer, and all of the work that we have done over the last couple of mon

we are employing a different approach to lafco's funding approach. we submitted an estimated amount of what lafco believes will be their request for the budgets year only. since the lafco does not adopt its budget until june and only then on a yearly basis. so, this created a technical issue when the request would come in and on occasion it was higher in june. based on the outcome of conversations that we've had with the mayor's office, we are submitting the full statutory amount on an ongoing basis and will reduce the amount if the actual request from lafco comes in lower. we'll wait and see. this approach makes budgeting balancing more seamless and allows for more accurate budget projection for the outyear. and regarding the constituent management system. we've included 185,000 after conducting a needs assessment for the constituent management system with board member offices. clerk of the board staff and i should give all of that credit to wilson ang. he has engaged with discussions with sales force and industry leader in providing customer relati

so at the direction of lafco our office issued an rfq for executive officer services. the deadline was extended to february 13th, 2018. the anticipated not to exceed contract raid is $75 an hour. the panel deliberation was scheduled for this morning, and we will issue a notice of intent to prequalify, we're hoping by february 27th. at this time, the details of the respondents are confidential in accordance with the administrative code chapter 67.24 for mr. brooks, but may be subject to disclosure once the panel scoring and the issue of the notice of intent to prequalify has completed. respondents are not gasuarante a contract if they meet the qualifications because it is on lafco for the qualification and certainly as the chair as she was authorized to conduct this r 23 q process, and the respondent's ability to complete the necessary administrative requirements in order to become an approved city vendor through the general services agency. respondents who are prequalified will remain eligible for consideration and contract negotiation on an as needed basis for five ye