commissioner campos: i will turn over to lafco staff, mr. fried. >> the budget is presented before you in the packet. we believe we have enough in the reserve account at this point, if need be, to return funds to the city and county of san francisco that we should reserve our right, we have the ability -- once the city and county has given money to us, the city and county does not have the ability to lower the amount. they can raise the amount a time they want, but they can't flourish without lafco's approval. with the city and county having financial issues, time has been spent on a different pot of money. in future years, we need the funding source for and will have the funding source back. so the staff recommends doing that once again. commissioner campos: think you very much. any comments or questions on the budget? commissioner schmeltzer: i want to say that the process has worked well, there hasn't manhattan real -- the money wasn't there prior to it being adopted and this method has worked well in order to work hand-in-hand with the c

commissioner campos: if we can have a motion to except the 2012-2013 lafco budget? seconded by commissioner schmeltzer. can we take that without objection? done. call item number six. >> authorization to amend the agreement with miller and dolan to extend the term to june 30, 2013. >> fason fried, lafco staff one more time. the contract for miss miller's services will be expiring. this is a continuation of her contract. for whatever reason, the contract has gotten off of the calendar or budget cycle. staff is recommending that instead of extending it for one year and have it, and not point in time, we are recommending that we extend it through the end of next fiscal year that will mean that contract will be a 16-month contract in total. over that 16 months, over the last year, we spent $88,000. 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 ear

madam clerk: item no. 6, authorization to extend two lafco staff positions. chairperson campos: miss miller. >> as you will recall, we have board of supervisors by ordinance passed lafco with monitoring and advising the san francisco public utilities commission and implementation of the c.c.a. program. to further that task, we entered into an mou with sfpuc in 2009 which provided non-general fund funds to provide for those activities and subsequently this commission, through working with city and county staff, authorized the hiring of two staff -- or, actually, the setting up of two staff positions for that work. mr. fried was hired in our senior program officer position. the community development assistant, we did originally fill. that person left the job. i've not refilled it because that position is really for once we get into program launch, but those two positions are term positions and they were to be termed out as of august of 2012. so this item before you is to extend that, since we've had an extension of the launch of our c.c.a. program, is to extend

jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is

jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is available for us to be able to determine how the impact of voters as far as over-0 vote, under-a vote, who shows up on election day, what are they choosing to participate in. there are two main sources of data, the department of elections has a lot of data on their website. a lot of their data in recent years is much more informative than what they provided an older years, so it is harder to compare rank choice voting out compared with the old december runoff's we used to have because the data available back then is not quite as in debt as the data is today. what i am doing is trying to figure out t

in the meetings that we have had with lafco and puc staff, more and more this concept of rolling and customers at the beginning of the project has renewable and efficiency share owners. but buying in the shares for billing code-ownership, things like that, what local power is coming up with, an opportunity to introduce customers to a couple meetings ago, how they think that they can use this method of getting people to sort of buy and stood of rent into the system, buying instead of renting electricity. the main thing that they think they can accomplish is price parity with pg&e. we need to make sure they are still cooking the

welcome to the april 27, 2012 meeting for the lafco for the city and county of san francisco. my name is david campos, the chair of the commission. we're joined today by commission vice chair john avalos, as well as christina olague. we have commissioners mar, hope schmeltzer, and leah pimentel. the clerk is linda wong. we would like to think john and greg from sfgtv staff. please call item number two. >> item number two, approval of lafco minutes from march 23, 2012 regular meeting. supervisor campos: is there any member of the public who would like to speak on item number two? the seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. motion by supervisor avalos. a second by commissioner olague. without objection. please call item 3. >> community choice aggregation activities report. status update on clean power sf program. status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission. status update on the state legislation. supervisor campos: great, thank you very much. we have three items under item three. i like to turn it over to robert, t