brian gobel. you've hit the ground running and i'd like toell you we're looking forward to working er toge in this body. miss calvillo provided tremendous support to this commission in the last ten months since losing our staff position, andm so grateful for her work. with that, mr. gobel, i'll turn it over to you. >> thank you, madam chair and commissioners. i am here to present your final lafco budget for fiscal 2018-'19. before i get into the final budget, though, i just want to review your expenditure status. a lot of these numbers with similar to the numbers presented to you at the last two meetings by former interim administrative officer angela calvillo, but they have been updated for you today to reflect the new expenditures since your last meeting. so i'll show you the first slide here is lafco's expenditures as of may 15, 2018, the available balance is just under $220,000. as you know, this mou between lafco and the puc has been extended through june of 19. here are your expenditures to

gobel, do you have any questions of us? >> so would the line item that you're requesting be for $24,000 then? >> supervisor fewer: yes, the full amount. >> the full amount. >> supervisor fewer: we won't be returning. >> commissioner pollock: okay. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so let's open this up for public comment. mr. brooks? >> yes, eric brooks again. good afternoon commissioners, speaking for -- i think i'll just speak for san francisco green party and our city san francisco. back in the day when all we were doing was cleanpowersf, it did make sense to give that money back to the city. commission fewer, you as a supervisor have been in on a hearing on public broad band which raises a lot of question about whether the direction we're going is the right direction, and we may need a study that probably would cost around $20,000 on public broad band in the near future to make sure we do it right and it's a true public internet system, not an internet system controlled by a corporation. and likewise, i'll highlight you again,