supervisor campos: 82 pand thank you to puc and lafco staff. supervisor mirkarimi: this is a milestone. i want to thank you for helping to shepherd this along the way. i have been serving as live co- chairman for four years. i am happy to see commissioner campos now in that role. this is the long road of about eight to 10 years. there has been no conversation like what is taking place today in that eight years that has provided us more than just anecdotal data. now we have directional steps. we have different departments in the city more unified with a focus that is becoming more structured towards an objective that is delineated by a set of goals and principles outlined by both public policy, has been passed on ordnance level, and by a number of commitments expressed by the organs of city hall to go in the same direction. i do not want to leave this room without reflecting on the fact that there is a bit of a milestone in this discussion. i want to extend my compliments to the puc and lafco staff and to the commissioners for remaining open-min

i think there are a couple of legal issues that i would ask lafco help you with into. if you have a franchise agreement the, how can the money be used legally? can that go directly to the general fund? are there limitations on the use of those funds? i want to know more about the 1932 ordinance. it is a lot of discussion about what the ordinance supposedly says and does. i think it is important for us to have more specific information of what it actually says. the question i had is whether or not the department of public health can issue permits under the ordinance. if that is the case, we might have a situation where there is no change in the charter required. if you look at the language of the ordinance when it talks about the permit, it says the permits granted by the director of public health shall not be exclusive. one or more persons or firms may be given a permit to collect from the same route. i do not know what that means exactly. but i think it is important for us to have a better sense of what the implications of the language of the ordinance actually are. m

i think maybe lafco should take a look at that. supervisor campos: public comment is closed. before we move on to the last item, let's go back to items 4, 5, and six. i would ask that we have a motion to continue that. there is a motion by commissioner mirkarimi that is seconded. without objection. madam clerk, call item 10. >> adjournment. supervisor campos: the meeting is adjourned. enjoy your weekend. thank you again for all the work that has been done. ♪ >> welcome to "culturewire." since december 2005, the museum of the african diaspora, known locally,moad, has presented programs that celebrate and explore the culture, history, and art of people with african descent throughout the and added states and throughout the world. the director of cultural affairs recently met with the museum director. to learn more about the current expedition, textural rhythms, constructing the jazz tradition, contemporary african american quilts. >> welcome to "culturewire." today, we are at the museum of the african diaspora, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary occupying one of the pre

supervisor campos: 82 pand thank you to puc and lafco staff. supervisor mirkarimi: this is a milestone. i want to thank you for helping to shepherd this along the way. i have been serving as live co- chairman for four years. i am happy to see commissioner campos now in that role. this is the long road of about eight to 10 years. there has been no conversation like what is taking place today in that eight years that has provided us more than just anecdotal data. now we have directional steps. we have different departments in the city more unified

supervisor campos: would be helpful to do a formal invitation on behalf of lafco and the puc? >> let's do some feelers with pg&e. some combination may be the way to do it. we may come back with a recommendation. supervisor campossupervisor mir: something, potentially. we need to figure out what that would look like. supervisor campos: you do not want to post a letter and "the guardian." colleagues, any questions on item six? is there any member of the public who would like to speak on the item? see none, public comment is closed. >> i do not want this first meeting with our new chair -- joint meeting with our new chair to conclude without saying thank you for the four years of leadership from our past chair supervisor mirkarimi. we would not have gotten to the day or get to the finish line without your leadership and advice. i want to publicly thank you for everything you have done to help cca laid the groundwork. supervisor mirkarimi: i have been share for five years. supervisor campos: public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to comment. >> eric brook

we've budgeted money years ago to take care of the expenses of lafco and this program. this did not come from ratepayers. the poll cost about $50,000 to do. it did not come from the ratepayers of san francisco. >> it came from where? >> it came from revenue from power sales to the irrigation district and a variety of other customers we have on the power site. >> the people in the best of pay for this? -- modesto paid for this? >> out of the entire budget, you could pick a line item that paid for it. >> i am not sure the right person is to answer this question. maybe miss hale. commissioner torres was just speaking about the participation rates. what would be the participation rate in a 100% clean program -- green program? i would assume if 100% of the people wanted to sign up, we would not be able to provide power at 100% agreement -- green. i am hoping there is room to grow in that. i am wondering what the target is. >> we are preparing to target at launch 75,000 account holders. the survey information and the slide i set up earlier is indicative. it is not definitive.

i think maybe lafco should take a look at that. supervisor campos: public comment is closed. before we move on to the last item, let's go back to items 4, 5, and six. i would ask that we have a motion to continue that. there is a motion by commissioner mirkarimi that is seconded. without objection. madam clerk, call item 10. >> adjournment. supervisor campos: the meeting is adjourned. enjoy your weekend. thank you again for all the work that has been done. ♪ >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll an

supervisor mirkarimi: miss nutter, thank you for being here and working with the lafco staff to make sure we have as much information as we can have. >> she and her staff were always available to us as consultants. there were very professional in providing data. i believe we will get nothing but cooperation from her staff and your current provider. >> i am here to address you on the study commissioned. i thought i would put a chart here on the overhead projector that may answer some of the questions. you may not be able to see that well. this charge is provided to all of you. it was distributed this morning. you should have at your desks. it may be in the package provided to you. it shows the effective franchise fees currently receive for the city and county of san francisco is about 10%. this chart adds up all of the fees paid directly to the city from recology through the rate setting process and the free services. some include the fees paid directly to the city. those are in pound accounts, vehicle license fees, debris box permit fees, business tax, and facility permit fees. that

president vietor: i particularly want to welcome and thank supervisor campos for assuming the chair of the lafco. we really look forward to moving the process forward as quickly as possible. i think it is quite interesting that there is a new climate change study that has really put us all, giving us a wake-up call saying that we can do whatever we can to combat sea level rise. and we can really reduce our contribution and greenhouse gas emissions. >> let me thank everyone for being here today. not only the members of both commissions, but members of the public and the advocates that have been working on community choice aggregation for quite some time. one of the things that i have said is that we are at a very unique position to finally implement this program. i know there is a commitment on everyone involved. not only the members, but the public utilities commission. it is an exciting opportunity. our job is to get this done and to do so as expeditiously as possible and make sure is done in a way the remains as faithful to not only the letter, but the spirit of the law that was passed that go

. >> welcome to the special meeting for lafco, april 18, 2011. supervisor campos: i am david campos, commissioner. we're joined by ross mirkarimi and commissioners pimental and commissioner avalos. madame clerk, please call item no. two. >> approval of the minutes from previous meeting. supervisor campos: you have the minutes before you from the march meeting. we have a motion to except. is there any public comment on those minutes? c. non, public comment is closed. we have a motion from supervisor mirkarimi. we will take that without objection. call the next item. >> item # 3 is the study for a refugse collection in the greatr bay area. >> this is an item we have been working on for a few weeks. the board of supervisors is considering an item to issue a contract -- a landfill contract considered at the budget and finance meeting a few weeks ago. we have been conducting a study of how other jurisdictions deal with the issue of refuse collection, transportation, and disposal. to present on the item is our executive officer, nancy miller. >> we com

. >> ♪ well, hello, lafco and recology make it good, recology it is so nice to have you back where youelong the city is looking swell, recology i can tell, recology you are still going you are still growing you are still hauling strong one of those -- i will take up all those old-time landfill garbage from way back when golly, gee, board fellas why don't you recycle it up, and then you will sell them make it better, recology, once again ♪ [applause] >> sometimes you need a song to take all the tension out of the room. commissioner campos: next speaker. >> hello. i cannot very well top that. i was president of sun said scavenger company 1965 through 1985. i work for waste management for 10 years and sanitary service after that. toynbee and we had a tremendous amount of experience working with smaller companies and larger companies. when i became president of the company, san francisco was facing a difficult crisis, filling the day with garbage. we were able to work with the city government of san francisco, and the city of san francisco recognize the scavengers were experts in the solid