chairperson campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, if we can continue this item to the call of the chair, we will bring this item back as the need may arise. we have a motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner pimintel. >> item 6, executive officer's report. >> form 700's are done -- are due, and we will be in contact to make sure those are on file. chairperson campos: any member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 7, public comment. chairperson campos: this is an opportunity for any member of the public to speak on any item within the jurisdiction of the local agency formation commission that is not otherwise on the agenda. seeing none, a public comment is closed. >> item 8, future agenda items. chairperson campos: colleagues, do we have any other future agenda items? i know we have covered some new subject areas for us to focus. is there a membe

chairperson campos: thank you. i know a number of members of the public are here to speak on this item. i look forward to their comments. if you can please come up, you each have three minutes. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i appreciate the opportunity to give a little more information. i was with the san francisco voting task force. we spent a couple of years studying voting systems in particular. that report -- i think it is still available on the web. certainly, paper copies are available somewhere. that would give you a great overview of voting systems in general. we also discussed in that report ranked choice voting. there are a couple of high- level things. the most important thing to consider here is transparency. that is to get as many allies on the system, and the things that calculate the votes, as is possible. this is missing entirely with proprietary-owned vendor operating software systems. essentially, software is proprietary in protected by all manner of rights and secrecy, so nobody gets eyes on

chairperson campos: good afternoon and welcome to the february 24, 2012 meeting. my name is david campos. i am the chair of the commission. we are joined today by the commission vice chair, commissioner john avalos, as well as commissioner pimentel. our clerk is linda wong. i want to thank staff which is helping to cover this meeting. could you please call item number two? >> approval of lafco minutes from january, 2012. chairperson campos: if there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item 2 below? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: motion to approve. commissioner pimentel: second. chairperson campos: without objection. >> item 3, community toys aggregation activities report -- a status update on the clean power program, status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission, and status update on state legislation. chairperson campos: we will now hear from michael campbell of the public utilities commission. >> i am the director of clean power sf, through sfpuc. a few things to re

chairperson campos: any questions for mr. campbell?i may follow up on a couple of things -- on the issue of the opt out rates, i think it is good you are doing some follow- up additional work on that. i think we should get to as clear a number as we can. i think the rate will be lower than what we have discussed. i think it is good that we are doing what we are doing. my hope -- i do not know if that is a possibility, that we can have a clear idea of what that number will be by the time we meet again as a commission. i do not know if that is possible. >> we can definitely start getting it more refined, in terms of the final number will ultimately will use. we will frankly be tinkering with that up until the last minute. one item that we are researching -- we had done some market research before to test a different question that we have been trying to apply toward it. we are considering doing some more targeted follow-up to help define that. in terms of the work the team has been doing, it is looking like -- it really depends on what ty