>> jason fried, lafco staff bit of that is a very good idea. the end of february is one of the legislative bills have to be introduced at the assembly or in the senate. one thing i was planning on was actually coming to you with all the bills that might have an impact on sunday that lafco is looking at the that would definitely be one of them. we can take a support or oppose position on each of those bills as needed in the february meeting.

lafco can take those positions. supervisor campos: i think it would be helpful for us if we can track that and bring it to the nextee

lafco can take those positions. supervisor campos: i think it would be helpful for us if we can track that and bring it to the next meeting, because that is something that impacts not just cca, but everything that happens on the puc. we should be on the record in support of good government. >> absolutely, that will be included on the list. supervisor campos: colleagues, commissioners, any questions about item number five? ms. miller? >> you know, i just had one more thought peter i am sorry. normally we try to schedule joint meetings with the sfpuc during the year. and it has always been -- as i have learned over the years, it is much better to start that process earlier than later. i know we talked about the calendar, and now we're talking about cca. but if there is a need to meet in the spring or early summer, we should perhaps start that request now so that we can get a date with everyone's calendar so that we have at least the day. if we do not want it, we do not need to use it. perhaps it might make sense for y

lafco can take those positions. supervisor campos: i think it would be helpful for us if we can track that and bring it to the next meeting, because that is something that impacts not just cca, but everything

of the objectives of lafco is to promote good government

i think it is time for lafco to take this on. -- smart grids. commissioner campos: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will come back to this in a future meeting so that once we have a fuller discussion, we can take action in terms of adopting a set of goals and objectives. commissioner avalos: i had been looking at fiber and -- i think looking at fiber and broadband is worthwhile. i just do not know if we can bet that within our year, given our timeline and scope of work, but i think it is a worthy thing to look at. we can continue the conversation when we have a fuller contingent of people here. commissioner campos: i think that makes sense. commissioner pimentel. commissioner pimentel: [inaudible] in with maybe in october, closer to the end of the year? commissioner campos: ms. miller? >> i think what we will do is keep it on the agenda for our next meeting so that our newest commissioner, we can talk a little bit about if there is any additional point of interest or subject matter. then we can talk about timin

lafco calendar for 2012. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have the proposed calendar for us. this is an action item. motion to approve by supervisor avalos. second by commissioner pimentel. we can take that without objection. i want to note that we have a special guest this afternoon here at lafco. we have little lawrence, who is an honorary member of the local agency formation commission. so we want to thank the honorary commissioner for being here. item number 5. >> 5, community choice aggregation activities report. status update on cleanpowersf program. and then the status update on proceedings at the california public utilities commission. supervisor campos: mr. michael campbell, good afternoon. >> thank you. i am the director of cleanpowersf, often referred to as community choice aggregation to work in the sfpuc as part of power enterprise. i will be brief. taking the theme of this meeting here today. as you all know, we're very excited that the board of supervisors is set to take up the big parts of the contract approval

is. >> jason fried, lafco staff. we put together a list of questions and sent them to the department of elections. they have since responded back. some of the questions, looking at some of the data, has posed some of the other data. i am creating a follow-up list of questions for them to answer. we have been doing a lot of data collection, looking at finding other reports out there on voting systems in general. there has not been as much done, at least on san francisco specifically, looking at data. there was one done a few years ago. i will reach out and see if they might be doing an update on that. this has been mostly data collection on the report. because we were looking at multiple different subject matters, each subject is a report in itself. you are not necessarily going to use the same data as you do for voter turnout. there are a lot of variables in place. i am trying to collect as much data as we can. supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. fried, for your work on this. we will hear from a member of the public wh

lafco is all about regional municipality relationships. it can be a really powerful opportunity for the bay area, in consultation with occupy, to get some great stuff to happen with municipal banking. it is a great idea to put some city funds into credit unions instead of big wall street banks, and community banks. however, those credit unions and banks are still somewhat at the mercy, because of their size and where they invest, to investing in a market that is still doing the stuff that we would want to try to get our banking away from. yes, credit unions and local banks are great. but a true government-owned municipal bank, to me and to the green party, is definitely crucial. we need to make that happen. i want to time in one more time, since we have another commissioner who has not been here recently. we have got to get -- hopefully, right around the time that clean power sf gets approved in the sfpuc, which will probably be sometime in the fall, we really need to get on city-wide broadband municipal fiber-optic. that also dovetails wi

if not, i am willing to renominate supervisor campos says the chair of lafco. i think your works beats -- where it speaks for itself could you have done a great job steering as the past year, looking add cca as well as the waste contracts in san francisco. i think your leadership has shown in many ways, and i would like to nominate you. supervisor campos: thank you, supervisor. commissioners? >> i would like to nominate supervisor of the los for the vice-chair -- supervisor avalos four vice-chair. supervisor avalos: thank you. supervisor campos: we have nominations for a chair and vice-chair. let me add to the vice-chair, i have worked with commissioner avalos in his capacity as a member of the board of supervisors, and i cannot think of anyone who better embodies the leadership qualities that you want to see in an elected official. so i would be proud to support that nomination. why don't we turned to ms. miller to advise us as to the best way to proceed. >> nancy miller, you can proceed on the item concurrently. it can be by affirmation. supervisor campos: we

one of the thing that lafco's can do is to conduct studies and gathered that information. at the last meeting there was a move to have lafco staff work with the elections department to gather that information's so that their respective of what that perspective is, at least we have some data on what has happened and what the data tells us. and so that is a useful thing to have. the second thing i would say is, i did want to ask the head of the elections for the city and county a couple of questions to get a better sense of the practicality of some of the things that were raised. again, we have heard from a side, the pros and cons of each proposal. -- each side, the pros and cons of each proposal. the proposal -- if he had any thought about the practicality of having a september runoff and what that would -- is that something that the elections department would be able to handle and what kind of impact would that have on what you guys do already? from what i understand, it is a very busy agency that is doing a lot. i wanted to hear from you, their respective of the pros and

one thing you'll notice is that lafco is not using any general fund money. this is true of the proposed budget as well. they have a balance that can carry forward. you can also defied the budget looking at the expense types. salaries and benefits, as with all departments to the city, are by far the largest amount of money that we spend. we have professional services, the bulk of which is the budget and legislative analyst contracts, and the comprehensive annual financial report contract, which is about 3 $314,000. services of other departments, the work orders, just over $200,000. we have money in there to replace a server at the end of its life. we are not having any capital requests for 2012-2013, but will have another server at the end of its life and 2013-24 team, so there will be a request for capital for that. looking at a couple of different ways to divide that our pie of expenses, the labor and contracts is 93% of what our budget consists of. everything else is $736,000. not a lot of wiggle room. we also have a number of mandates. at the board of sup

lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. >> sanrio famous for the designs for hello kitty. i thought i would try to make it as cute as possible. that way people might want to read the stories. then people might be open to learn about the deities and the culture. ♪ they reached out to make about five or six years ago because of the book published. they appreciated that my work was clearly driven from my research and investigation. after i contributed my artwork, the museum was really beside themselves. they really took to it. the museum reached out to me to see if i would be interested in my own space inside the museum. i tell them that would be a dream come true. it is the classical, beautiful indian mythology through the lens of modern design and illustration and storytelling. they're all of these great sketch as i did for the maharajah exhibition. i get a lot of feedback on my artwork and books. they complement. they say how original the work is. i am the first person to say that this is so derived

again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. here. commissioner lee: here. commissioner hyde: here. commissioner joseph: here. commissioner tan i believe is on his way. >> item one is discussion and possible action to send recommendation to the planning commission and the board of supervisors regarding entertainment and community planning. before i call on commissioner hyde to address us, i want to make a couple of points. neither myself nor this commission is discrediting the process of the plan. we respect the process, we just know that it isn't finished yet. wefeel like it is fair to keep on talking about it. things have been referred to as an entertainment zone. we fi that language to be inflammatory. it serves no purpose and is not ctua our input, by the way, is sply recommendations. it is for those bodies that actually make the final decision. no decision made here today reflects the plan, it is just our recommendation to them. land use is a very long-term decision. when you make a land use decision

again, thank you to the members of the public, to puc staff, lafco staff, commissioners. thank you, madam clerk. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic