bryan goebel. >> good morning, happy new year. thank you for being here today. here today to ask your approval of a contract for lafco legal services. the commission, as you know, authorized me back in june to issue an r.f.p. for legal services. seeing how the contract had not been updated in more than 20 years since lafco was formed. the r.f.p. was issued on august 17th. we extended the deadline to october 26th. i did a considerable amount of outreach and we received four very strong proposals from some of the leading law firms representing lafco's and other public agencies in california. and remy public law group. all four of those firms qualified to proceed to the interview process and then i selected an r.f.p. panel to evaluate the proposals. on the panel were angela calvillo, clerk of the board, beth rubensteen and rachel jones, the executive officer of lafco. the firm that scored the highest was richards, watson and gershan. they left it would be best for lafco. particularly, they have specialized knowledge of some of the issues this lafco is working on. t

i would like to invite officer bryan goebel to present on this item along with lea troeh. >> we are here to present today preliminary findingses of the review on the labor study on emerging mobility services. i want to update a few items before the presentation. first, our request for proposals for the labor survey has been posted. i am beginning the process of considerable outreach hoping the uc berkeley labor center will be one of them. i have had talks with them. the r.f.p. is posted. deadline to submit is marc march 15th. secondly, there is a graduate class at the university of san francisco that was going to be contributing to the study. i am happy to report today i met with the professor and that class commenceses january 21st. there will be three specific study areas, geographic and political economics in the speck tore. special and geographic, politics and lobbying and best practices. the students hope to present findings to lafco in may at our meeting. third i updated the timeline for the study. some aspects of it have taken longer than i anticipated. i included that in the pack