before the legislature, if you recall, last year, there was a bill, sb 790, which helped cca a lot. cpuc is starting a hearings process for the code of conduct to be administrator of with the utilities, which will help level the playing field. we will be actively involved in that. also, the cpuc -- i am in regular contract -- contact with senior people there, providing a performance bond that is required for cca to post. i made it clear we cannot launch our program without knowing what that mechanism would be and what that amount is likely to be, so we can make sure we are able to satisfy that. back toward the very end of last year, supervisor campos, general manager harrington, and myself met with the commission to make that known. earlier this week, general managers harrington and hale were invited to talk with cpuc commissioner simon. it was a meet and greet. they talked about the program and noted that one of the steps for being able to launch is the cpuc to take action on that. that message was delivered. we are trying all the different tools to keep getting it to move forward,

while we tend to get focused on cca and some of the other issues, the point of this is just to remind you that you have the power. if there are issues or other services that you want to direct us to explore, that is really our purpose. this item was put on to the direction of the chair, to remind you this is a power to conduct studies of municipal services solely by lafco. chairperson campos: to add to that, besides community choice aggregation, in the last year or so, we have looked at the issue of garbage disposal and transportation. we also now are looking at the issue of voting. if there are any other issues that you think this commission could look that, we have the opportunity to do that. that is not something we have to do our decide today. but we wanted to make sure we reminded you of that opportunity. supervisor avalos: thank you. i appreciate the reminder about what lafco can do, in terms of research. i think i might want to look at, not just for today -- i will just broach the suspect -- broach the subject. i am looking at municipal banking in san francisco, and how we migh

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most of it has come out of the cca fund for her legal services. we're asking and the contract itself is for 125,000. we're asking to keep it under $125,000, continue that and added into the system. for 16 months, we will need a little bit more. it should work out a budget early -- budgetarily for us. commissioner campos: i did think it was important to make sure that the contract are based on the fiscal year. i think for purposes of accounting and budgeting, it makes more sense. that is the reason we are doing it this way. commissioner schmeltzer? commissioner schmeltzer: thank you. again, now that we have worked with miss miller for a number of years, first in her role as providing legal counsel, the prior executive officer in the interim position that i think she has held for three years, i think she has done a very good job, a very capable java. >> i will definitely agree with that. one thing that i appreciate about miss miller aside from the expertise is that she is very mindful of the fact that we want her to be efficient. we are certainly ve

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i have been office space, i am the cca -- a ceo. what i bring to the board is job creation. we spend a lot of time trying to find jobs, but i am bringing the job creation. sustainable trend that will enhance jobs. hospitality is definitely the area. supervisor kim: something that comes up often in conversations with our tech companies, partnering with culinary and janitorial services. what are some of the barriers in getting folks into the culinary industry? that is doing a quite well in san francisco. what do you see as some of the challenges and ways to overcome those? >> the end result has to lead into not just training, but it'some type of end result. not only are we doing a job training in the training field, we want to do it catering that will give people income. give you some experience, you know, you describe twitter from college and that is a big thing, but where is your expert -- you just graduated from college and that is a big thing, but where is your experience? supervisor kim: thank you. thank you very much. next we have monique allen. >> thank you for consider

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